After watching this video, I was really inspired by what a thought provoking speech this really was. As an avid youngster against homosexuality (there are too many negative consequences to both the person and the environment around them for homosexuality to be good as a starters), I am not gravitated towards something of this nature. However, placing my personal opinions aside, I think this speech really does contain allot of crucial and vivid elements into our community at large, if nothing else, our perceived community at large and how you can place a controversial subject into a very heart-pumping/wrenching subject (at the least). It’s the power of persuasion.
Nevertheless, I believe that Harvey is right when it comes to hope. Without hope, not only gays, but those who are black, Asian, disabled, senior, the us’s: without hope the us’s give up. We can’t live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. Overall, enjoy this video of Harvey Milk and let me know your thoughts, feelings and opinions regarding the video. Do you think Harvey Milk is Right? Peace Out!
“Somewhere in Des Moines or San Antonio there is a young gay person who all the sudden realizes that he or she is gay; knows that if their parents find out they will be tossed out of the house, their classmates will taunt the child, and the Anita Bryant’s and John Briggs’ are doing their part on TV. And that child has several options: staying in the closet, and suicide. And then one day that child might open the paper that says “Homosexual elected in San Francisco” and there are two new options: the option is to go to California, or stay in San Antonio and fight. Two days after I was elected I got a phone call and the voice was quite young. It was from Altoona, Pennsylvania. And the person said “Thanks”. And you’ve got to elect gay people, so that thousand upon thousands like that child know that there is hope for a better world; there is hope for a better tomorrow. Without hope, not only gays, but those who are blacks, the Asians, the disabled, the seniors, the us’s: without hope the us’s give up. I know that you can’t live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you, and you, and you, and you have got to give them hope.”
-Harvey Milk, 1978
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Well…obviously, they’re playing to our emotions…trying to evoke sympathy by applying this one senario to others…it’s a good general message, hope for change etc, but it doesn’t really provide facts or evidence…it’s really just a fallacy, or several fallacies. Not every homosexual will be abandoned, neglected, or abused. And the fact that homosexuals have been or are being elected does not change the situation for individual homosexuals, really. True, it may raise awareness, and may even help provide more gay rights, but I don’t believe it would be much more effective than the activists already out there.