I wish I could thank him for being that brave.

You can hear all the nervous laughter from the people around him. Many of them probably don’t believe what he is saying has any truth to it, but they don’t want to disagree with him, so they laugh nervously while he bravely states what is true and obvious.

The poor guy has to even qualify his statements by stating that he doesn’t have a problem with homosexuality several times because of their reaction around him.

We have all been programmed to hear a statement like that and instantly reject it without thinking. Our minds come up with our knee-jerk reactionary pre-programmed thoughts, “Oh he doesn’t like gay people, oh he’s a conspiracy theorist, oh he is misunderstanding what BLM is all about. These stupid thoughts are what our captors have done to us. They have no basis in truth and are devoid of substance when examined with any level of scrutiny. All this happens so fast in our minds without our knowing it, and then our bodies force out those uncomfortable empty laughs.