People pause during a minute's silence in memory of the victims of the gay nightclub mass shooting in Orlando, in the Soho district of London on Monday. ( DYLAN MARTINEZ / REUTERS )Since Sunday’s shooting in Orlando, Florida — the deadliest in U.S. history — far too many people are downplaying the virulent homophobia at the heart of the massacre. The only problem worth discussing and eradicating, they argue, is Islamic terrorism—a threat to us all — not homophobia, a threat to some. Because it appears what’s at work here, in the aftermath of the Orlando massacre, is the LGBTQ-edition of “All Lives Matter”— the cynical, mean-spirited, right wing response to Black Lives Matter; the flawed notion that giving love and support to a specific minority is tantamount to an insult to everyone else. (Why it could be both, and so much more, doesn't seem to have crossed their minds.)

Source: thestar June 14, 2016 00:33 UTC