"Raven is a lesbian, my childhood is officially ruined."

[Zorra]

Now substitute "Raven is Jewish, my childhood is officially ruined."

And then try to tell me how it's "all just in good fun", and that I shouldn't be worried about another holocaust occurring.

The "off the cuff", "just the way things are" "all in good fun" nonchalant hatred in those posts is frightening. I see these types of posts in other places on the internet frequently. Many times, on websites where expressing homophobia is, ostensibly, not permitted, these hate posts are constructed in such a way as to appear innocent, and may fool the more ignorant among us, and give the other closet homophobes a little giggle of satisfaction that one of their hateful kindred spirits got away with a subtle gay hating post. Websites with jury systems are particularly prone to this phenomenon. It is almost a daily occurrence on these websites.

To all the homophobes who are reading this:

You homophobes are no different whatsoever than the European Nazis who so nonchalantly persecuted, tortured, and murdered many millions of people, and supported that holocaust, during the 1930's and 1940's. It's obvious, by witnessing your hatred, that you would do the same thing or worse to the LGBT community right now if you had the chance, and would revel and rejoice in it.

And you damn well know you would. Because, like Emma-Jane says in the graphic above, Newsflash: your life was ruined when you were raised to be a homophobe, and you never took the time to try to fix your twisted little minds.

[MotherPetrie]

1. K&R

[MADem]

2. "Emma-Jane" is brilliant! Talk about a smackdown!

But look at the Twitter names of the tools shopping the "ruined childhood" meme.

Is it me....or does that look like there might be elements of a coordinated campaign using a bunch of phony-ish twitter accounts? Who in their right mind would jump on that hate bandwagon, save fundies and tools?

[KittyWampus]

13. Twitter tends to take a phrase and people jump on it with their version trying to outdo

the original.

I suspect some might be sarcastic.

I wouldn't be surprised if we now see even more "Raven is gay, my childhood was ruined" stuff.

[Thav]

3. Emma-Jane's tweet is spot on.

However, who is Raven?

If someone is a role model for you, they must be having some sort of positive influence in your life. Maybe you should remember that, instead of focusing on the fact that they wear mixed fiber clothing.

[Scootaloo]

5. She played Olivia on "The Cosby Show"

And later starred in "That's So Raven!" - Interestingly the main character was named before she auditioned.

[madokie]

4. Spot on

[MineralMan]

6. Weird. Why would anyone care what her orientation is?

I'm old, so I didn't even recognize the name, but why would fans care about this at all?

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. K&R for Emma-Jane!

[Iggo]

8. Go, Emma-Jane!!!

[Bunnahabhain]

9. Twitter is populated by hateful troglodytes

and I wish it would fold up and go away. In my mind it's such a net negative on society.

[stevenleser]

19. Replace the word 'Twitter' in your subject with 'The internet' and I would agree.

Commenters at Yahoo, YouTube, most Newspaper websites and Twitter are extremely hateful and bigoted.

Facebook doesnt see it as much because you generally have to use your real name. People usually don't want to attach their real name to bigotry.

[WilliamPitt]

10. Who is Raven?

My mom's DU name is Raven. If Twitter revealed her to be a lesbian, my childhood would not be ruined, but it would be a tad confusing in retrospect.

[justiceischeap]

11. This is how you'll probably best remember her.

[petronius]

12. I'm guessing more than one DUer took a quick look to see if

you'd posted this.

I had no idea who this other Raven is, either, but that's an excellent smack-down in the OP...

[Zorra]

14. You're a journalist, and you couldn't find that out?

Typical Red Sox fan.

[WilliamPitt]

15. This week I'm a moving-and-unpacking journalist

who thought someone could take 30 seconds to answer instead of take 30 seconds to be an ass.

My mistake. This is DU, after all. We can always do both.

[Zorra]

16. Touche!

On DU we can always do both, and I'm sure many here would point to me as the classic example of living proof of that fact.

(For the record, I didn't know exactly who it was at first either.)

[WilliamPitt]

22. *kicks dirt, throws cap*

[TeeYiYi]

17. Early Raven as Olivia...

TYY

[Catherina]

18. Zing! Perfect response

"Newsflash: It was already ruined when you were raised as a homophobe"