FIRST LGBT+ (A blog by and about LGBT+ people in FIRST)

[Carolyn_Grace]

Originally Posted by scoutitout

I totally agree with this statement. I don't see any reason to separate out any group of kids. FIRST seems to be a pretty inclusive group and doesn't seem to have a major issue with discriminating.

This quote would have been better if it ended with, "...that I know of."

Just because you do not see any issues, does not mean that they do not exist. This is called Cognitive Dissonance: when your beliefs do not necessarily align with something else that is true.

Your personal experience cannot speak for others. If LGBT+ FIRSTers say that this blog is something that would be useful to them, then who is anyone to say that it isn't needed?

It would be like someone saying, "I'm hungry. I'm going to eat this banana." And someone else replying, "You're not hungry. You don't need that banana." Who are you to tell someone else that they aren't hungry? That they don't need this support group?

Originally Posted by bombodail

I completely agree with you, the last thing FIRST needs is to be taken over by SJWs. If people need issues to focus on, it should be issues that affect everyone such as climate change for example.

So just because a group is focusing on one thing, doesn't mean that the people involved can't focus on another thing as well. Supporting a LGBT+ FIRST blog doesn't mean that you CAN'T support research on climate change. This is a red herring logical fallacy.