The quality of reasoning and emptiness of a speech is in the mind of the beholder. I mean, you can make those claims for any view that doesn’t agree with yours. As many have both outside and inside this forum.
Sure, but if a guy offers me the mon and the stars and then runs away with my money, I have no one to blame but myself for teh lack of due diligence.
If yo tell me you disagree with laojifa policies or believe in nuclear power as teh answer, I can accept that, you have your convictions. But if you tell me that you voted against gay marriage because they cause tsunamis or quakes or they will bring foreigners to strip clean the NHI or any other far fetched claim, well, then I beg to difer.
I’ll admit I got very turned off by all the foreigners posting their rainbow pics for gay marriage on Facebook.
What did the gay community do for foreigners in Taiwan, both white and blue collar ?
Is gay marriage really at the top of all the issues we are facing in Taiwan ?
I’m actually a supporter of gay marriage but I think there are so many other priorities such as foreign labourers to be covered under the labour act, fair citizenship laws SO WE CAN ACTUALLY VOTE , how to stand up to China and move Taiwan forward, how to get better relations between foreign counties and Taiwan, how to improve a fairly shit education system …
Just fucking silence on all those issues but stick up a rainbow flag…Yeah…
YOU CANT EVEN VOTE why not make a big deal of THAT. Gay Taiwanese have FAR MORE rights than foreigners including long term residents overall…
I just don’t get why foreigners in Taiwan seem to campaign more to get marriage rights for Taiwanese than for their own rights. Comes across as idiotic. There are massive issues in the way foreigners are treated here.
Well, gay marriage receives widespread coverage in the West. It’s still very much a hot topic considering that a lot of those countries legalised it fairly recently as well (America, Australia, Germany etc.)
Besides, most of those foreigners would be in Taiwan for like what, 2 years at most? Of course they don’t give a fuck about immigration and citizenship law.
It would be a great economic incentive. Aside from the push it will give to the dying bridal couture and werdding specials conmpanies, lots of talented gay people will put up with the bad salaries in order to live more freely than say Singapore or China. Gay tourism for weddings!
Reviving this thread about the 2018 municipal elections to update one result in Zhongli, where a DPP council member was just recalled as the voter turnout cleared the 25% minimum. Revenge recall? It seems so, as he apparently tangled with Han and his supporters as Han was in the midst of being recalled in Kaohsiung.
Brian Hioe at New Bloom weighs in with some analysis of the recent recall in Zhongli, looking ahead as well to the recall vote facing Huang Jie in Kaohsiung on February 6:
The Zhongli guy was not originally a DPP guy—he was with the Green Party, and just recently jumped to the DPP. He also has something of a checkered history as outlined in some detail by Brian Hioe in the article linked above. I’m not sure if this led to his defeat, but it apparently didn’t help.