• TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page
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    9 months ago

    While that may be true in many cases, it is important to remember that straight people are perfectly capable of being hateful, homophobic monsters. Placing all the blame of LGBT hate on LGBT people, openly or not, isn’t nearly the whole story.

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      9 months ago

      And it’s the only oppressed group I ever hear this about.

      You never hear that all of the bigots who hate Muslims secretly want to be Muslim. Because they don’t. They’re just bigots. But somehow, according to some people, every homophobic bigot out there secretly wants a big cock down their throat.

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        9 months ago

        I could potentially see some racist people being racist because they’re jealous of something; often something that’s not even true, but a racist would believe. Like… Black people are stronger because of slavery or Asian people being really good at math.

        At the very least, telling this to a bigot certainly would piss them off and I’m all for that. Hear a dude using the N word? Ask him why he wants to be black so bad.

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      9 months ago

      Although personally I’ve gotten hate from other LGBT people about as often as straight people, it’s definitally a problem

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      9 months ago

      I was mocking him, and to anybody who might be impressed by his acts, also mocking them (hopefully) out of their decision. Like, if everyone widely talks about how people who attack the LGBT community secretly love cock, maybe the next perpetrator will be too embarrassed to follow through on their plans. Especially if afterwards the only thing that’s said about him and his evil deeds is “man that dude really likes suckin dick.”

      I’m not blaming LGBT people for LGBT hate. that’s… yeah that’s not it.

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        9 months ago

        Yes, mocking him by calling him gay, as an insult. I understand you don’t think that’s an insulting thing to be called and that he would, but using it in a derogatory way at all is still more harmful than helpful.

        I’m not calling you hateful or anything, I just wanted to point out the issues with this very common argument.

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          9 months ago

          Gay isn’t the insult. Secretly gay is. hes hurting people for doing something he secretly wants to do. it’s the hypocrisy. you’re reaching.