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Okay, that article in CNN just disgusts me. But, hey freedom of speech I guess. But it does go to show how large of a scale this thing is, millions of students all over the U.S. Going through the entire day wearing a shirt that stated what we were doing is "spreading the word" it just happened to be written. And at exactly 6:30 we all stood up on chairs in the dining hall and yelled "BREAK THE SILENCE" and then one girl read what I had posted in the very beginning. I get what some people are saying, but it is just another form of letting your opinion be known. It doesn't mean that other days I stay silent about how I feel. It doesn't mean this is all we do to support the GLBT community. And it also doesn't mean that this is the only community we support. I go to a very liberal school. And I love it.
Bacchanal, you've never been taunted as a child, have you? People can be downright cruel to other people if they fear what is different. If you feel completely alone, people make horrible comments everyday, and go out of their way to make your day miserable it catches up to you. It isn't all that easy to just "not associate" with people like that. Especially if you are in school. And let me say kids are just nasty to eachother. Think about it. Millions of kids commit suicide every year because they feel alone. Are you going to say they just shouldn't have associated with people who didn't accept them? I can't say I know what people who are GLBT go through, but I do know what it's like to live silent about a huge part of yourself. And I do know what it's like to walk down a hallway at school and not see a friendly face. Now I am a strong person, now I could handle the cruel kids, but only now. No one should have to live in fear of who they are. And the Day of Silence was just one of many parts of a movement to try to make this world a more accepting place.
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