Racism and misogyny and homophobia are so ugly

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone is actually afraid of gay people. No one hesitates walking down a dark street, looking around for gays. It's just a bizarre concept and I'm over it. People arent afraid of gays, and most people by the polling don't think about gays or want to stop gay people from having gay liaisons. They just don't like pride parades. If Gallup asked, "would you rather have your child's teacher be openly gay or have a pride parade on your street every day," the teacher is winning every time.

90% of Americans could care less what their child's teacher's sexual preference, race, gender, religious beliefs are. They just care about their competence as a teacher. No one wants a parade of any kind on their street every day.

I’ll bet you’re fine with St. Patrick’s Day parades and Veteran’s Day parades, though.

I don't know of anyone who would want a parade of any kind on their street every day. Do you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I simply can’t believe we are heading back to the ugly days of 1950s. Why are white straight men so scared of people who are different from them? I can’t believe my kids have to grow up in this ignorant hateful mindset when I thought we evolved over the last decades? It’s very sad. The saddest part is that hateful people will explain it away or deny it while voting for racist misogynistic homophobic policies. Our society is doomed. - signed, white straight female

When you make such disgusting statements about a certain group of people based on skin color, gender, or sexual preference, while painting them all with the same brush, you are truly no better than the specific people you are actually referring to. You're probably better and smarter than this; act like it.

It's not racism to point out racism. Stop being ridiculous.

When you paint all people with the same brush based on skin color, sexual preference, religious belief, gender, or any other meaningless identity characteristic, you are indeed a very low IQ bigot. Bigotry in any form does NOT get a free pass!

Cool story. Are you denouncing racism with the same fervor you’re using to denounce the people who are denouncing racism?

I denounce bigotry and racism in all forms. I would never suggest that people who are straight, gay, white, black, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Hispanic, Asian... are inherently racist due to them being straight, gay, white, black Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Hispanic, Asian... because that would make me a bigot.

Are you suggesting that white supremacy does not exist, or that it exists but we should not talk about it because Not All White People?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone is actually afraid of gay people. No one hesitates walking down a dark street, looking around for gays. It's just a bizarre concept and I'm over it. People arent afraid of gays, and most people by the polling don't think about gays or want to stop gay people from having gay liaisons. They just don't like pride parades. If Gallup asked, "would you rather have your child's teacher be openly gay or have a pride parade on your street every day," the teacher is winning every time.

90% of Americans could care less what their child's teacher's sexual preference, race, gender, religious beliefs are. They just care about their competence as a teacher. No one wants a parade of any kind on their street every day.

I’ll bet you’re fine with St. Patrick’s Day parades and Veteran’s Day parades, though.

I don't know of anyone who would want a parade of any kind on their street every day. Do you?

Where are parades happening every day?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I simply can’t believe we are heading back to the ugly days of 1950s. Why are white straight men so scared of people who are different from them? I can’t believe my kids have to grow up in this ignorant hateful mindset when I thought we evolved over the last decades? It’s very sad. The saddest part is that hateful people will explain it away or deny it while voting for racist misogynistic homophobic policies. Our society is doomed. - signed, white straight female

What examples specifically lead you to believe we are headed to 1950s?

Several NFL teams will be wearing throwback to the 50s uniforms this year.

How is the NFL still a thing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone is actually afraid of gay people. No one hesitates walking down a dark street, looking around for gays. It's just a bizarre concept and I'm over it. People arent afraid of gays, and most people by the polling don't think about gays or want to stop gay people from having gay liaisons. They just don't like pride parades. If Gallup asked, "would you rather have your child's teacher be openly gay or have a pride parade on your street every day," the teacher is winning every time.

No one’s afraid of gays…they just want no parades, no books about gay people in libraries, no mention of it in schools, no gay people in the military (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell), no gay movie characters, no gay people celebrating their identity in public, no gay people getting married. They just want to be able to call gay people deviants, perverts, and filth, and shove them back into the closet where they won’t bother anybody. But sure, nobody’s actually SCARED of them, so it’s all OK and there’s no bigotry

Being objective- we call everyone names. Everyone. It's not clear why gay people expect to be any different, or why people disliking them or judging them is holding them back-- we are ALL judged for our physical appearance, lifestyle choices, etc.

But gays are the only ones who claim that it's a phobia, like how people react to spiders or confined spaces. We don't say femophobia, noirphobia, karenphobia. We only say homophobia, and I think that's to poke at the masculine tendency to say "I'm not scared!" And I agree, they aren't scared, they just don't like it. It's okay. We are a nation of people that don't like each other.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone is actually afraid of gay people. No one hesitates walking down a dark street, looking around for gays. It's just a bizarre concept and I'm over it. People arent afraid of gays, and most people by the polling don't think about gays or want to stop gay people from having gay liaisons. They just don't like pride parades. If Gallup asked, "would you rather have your child's teacher be openly gay or have a pride parade on your street every day," the teacher is winning every time.

90% of Americans could care less what their child's teacher's sexual preference, race, gender, religious beliefs are. They just care about their competence as a teacher. No one wants a parade of any kind on their street every day.

I’ll bet you’re fine with St. Patrick’s Day parades and Veteran’s Day parades, though.

I don't know of anyone who would want a parade of any kind on their street every day. Do you?

Where are parades happening every day?

Ma'am, its called "would you rather". Like, would rather have Steve Buscemi's eyes or Stephen Tyler's mouth? I presume you have neither, it's just a game.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I simply can’t believe we are heading back to the ugly days of 1950s. Why are white straight men so scared of people who are different from them? I can’t believe my kids have to grow up in this ignorant hateful mindset when I thought we evolved over the last decades? It’s very sad. The saddest part is that hateful people will explain it away or deny it while voting for racist misogynistic homophobic policies. Our society is doomed. - signed, white straight female

When you make such disgusting statements about a certain group of people based on skin color, gender, or sexual preference, while painting them all with the same brush, you are truly no better than the specific people you are actually referring to. You're probably better and smarter than this; act like it.

It's not racism to point out racism. Stop being ridiculous.

When you paint all people with the same brush based on skin color, sexual preference, religious belief, gender, or any other meaningless identity characteristic, you are indeed a very low IQ bigot. Bigotry in any form does NOT get a free pass!

Cool story. Are you denouncing racism with the same fervor you’re using to denounce the people who are denouncing racism?

I denounce bigotry and racism in all forms. I would never suggest that people who are straight, gay, white, black, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Hispanic, Asian... are inherently racist due to them being straight, gay, white, black Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Hispanic, Asian... because that would make me a bigot.

Are you suggesting that white supremacy does not exist, or that it exists but we should not talk about it because Not All White People?

To be fair, Hispanics and Asians are overrepresented among white supremacists. The most notable alleged white supremacist is a half Mexican guy and the leader of the proud boys was afro Caribbean. 80% of donations to proud boys were traced to people with Asian names. So if you're going to talk about white white supremacists, let's talk about all the POC white supremacists because they seem to be leading the charge.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone is actually afraid of gay people. No one hesitates walking down a dark street, looking around for gays. It's just a bizarre concept and I'm over it. People arent afraid of gays, and most people by the polling don't think about gays or want to stop gay people from having gay liaisons. They just don't like pride parades. If Gallup asked, "would you rather have your child's teacher be openly gay or have a pride parade on your street every day," the teacher is winning every time.

No one’s afraid of gays…they just want no parades, no books about gay people in libraries, no mention of it in schools, no gay people in the military (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell), no gay movie characters, no gay people celebrating their identity in public, no gay people getting married. They just want to be able to call gay people deviants, perverts, and filth, and shove them back into the closet where they won’t bother anybody. But sure, nobody’s actually SCARED of them, so it’s all OK and there’s no bigotry

Our once very religious culture was very intolerant of homosexuals. Fortunately, as we've evolved into a less religious society, we've become much less bigoted towards gays. Laws pertaining to same-sex marriages and gay rights reflect this change as well. Sometimes progress doesn't happen as quickly as we'd like but there has been noticeable progress for the better on this social issue in recent decades.

I know thousands of people on a first-name basis. Of those thousands of people, I may be able to name five people who aren't accepting of gay people. Flashback 40 years ago and someone my age would tell you that at least 50% of the people they know are not tolerant of open gayness.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone is actually afraid of gay people. No one hesitates walking down a dark street, looking around for gays. It's just a bizarre concept and I'm over it. People arent afraid of gays, and most people by the polling don't think about gays or want to stop gay people from having gay liaisons. They just don't like pride parades. If Gallup asked, "would you rather have your child's teacher be openly gay or have a pride parade on your street every day," the teacher is winning every time.

No one’s afraid of gays…they just want no parades, no books about gay people in libraries, no mention of it in schools, no gay people in the military (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell), no gay movie characters, no gay people celebrating their identity in public, no gay people getting married. They just want to be able to call gay people deviants, perverts, and filth, and shove them back into the closet where they won’t bother anybody. But sure, nobody’s actually SCARED of them, so it’s all OK and there’s no bigotry

Our once very religious culture was very intolerant of homosexuals. Fortunately, as we've evolved into a less religious society, we've become much less bigoted towards gays. Laws pertaining to same-sex marriages and gay rights reflect this change as well. Sometimes progress doesn't happen as quickly as we'd like but there has been noticeable progress for the better on this social issue in recent decades.

I know thousands of people on a first-name basis. Of those thousands of people, I may be able to name five people who aren't accepting of gay people. Flashback 40 years ago and someone my age would tell you that at least 50% of the people they know are not tolerant of open gayness.

These people (the woke left) are only united by their victimhood. If they aren't persecuted, who are they? Why are you trying to take away the one thing they've got-- their belief that everyone else is bad? Do you... hate them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone is actually afraid of gay people. No one hesitates walking down a dark street, looking around for gays. It's just a bizarre concept and I'm over it. People arent afraid of gays, and most people by the polling don't think about gays or want to stop gay people from having gay liaisons. They just don't like pride parades. If Gallup asked, "would you rather have your child's teacher be openly gay or have a pride parade on your street every day," the teacher is winning every time.

No one’s afraid of gays…they just want no parades, no books about gay people in libraries, no mention of it in schools, no gay people in the military (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell), no gay movie characters, no gay people celebrating their identity in public, no gay people getting married. They just want to be able to call gay people deviants, perverts, and filth, and shove them back into the closet where they won’t bother anybody. But sure, nobody’s actually SCARED of them, so it’s all OK and there’s no bigotry

Being objective- we call everyone names. Everyone. It's not clear why gay people expect to be any different, or why people disliking them or judging them is holding them back-- we are ALL judged for our physical appearance, lifestyle choices, etc.

But gays are the only ones who claim that it's a phobia, like how people react to spiders or confined spaces. We don't say femophobia, noirphobia, karenphobia. We only say homophobia, and I think that's to poke at the masculine tendency to say "I'm not scared!" And I agree, they aren't scared, they just don't like it. It's okay. We are a nation of people that don't like each other.

Disagree. They are scared, but not scared of being physically accosted. They are scared that gayness will “rub off” (or, of being perceived as gay, especially when they know they’ve engaged in certain actions and thoughts they don’t like to acknowledge).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone is actually afraid of gay people. No one hesitates walking down a dark street, looking around for gays. It's just a bizarre concept and I'm over it. People arent afraid of gays, and most people by the polling don't think about gays or want to stop gay people from having gay liaisons. They just don't like pride parades. If Gallup asked, "would you rather have your child's teacher be openly gay or have a pride parade on your street every day," the teacher is winning every time.

90% of Americans could care less what their child's teacher's sexual preference, race, gender, religious beliefs are. They just care about their competence as a teacher. No one wants a parade of any kind on their street every day.

I’ll bet you’re fine with St. Patrick’s Day parades and Veteran’s Day parades, though.

I don't know of anyone who would want a parade of any kind on their street every day. Do you?

Where are parades happening every day?

Ma'am, its called "would you rather". Like, would rather have Steve Buscemi's eyes or Stephen Tyler's mouth? I presume you have neither, it's just a game.

Ah, so it has no basis in reality then. Thanks for clarifying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone is actually afraid of gay people. No one hesitates walking down a dark street, looking around for gays. It's just a bizarre concept and I'm over it. People arent afraid of gays, and most people by the polling don't think about gays or want to stop gay people from having gay liaisons. They just don't like pride parades. If Gallup asked, "would you rather have your child's teacher be openly gay or have a pride parade on your street every day," the teacher is winning every time.

No one’s afraid of gays…they just want no parades, no books about gay people in libraries, no mention of it in schools, no gay people in the military (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell), no gay movie characters, no gay people celebrating their identity in public, no gay people getting married. They just want to be able to call gay people deviants, perverts, and filth, and shove them back into the closet where they won’t bother anybody. But sure, nobody’s actually SCARED of them, so it’s all OK and there’s no bigotry

Being objective- we call everyone names. Everyone. It's not clear why gay people expect to be any different, or why people disliking them or judging them is holding them back-- we are ALL judged for our physical appearance, lifestyle choices, etc.

But gays are the only ones who claim that it's a phobia, like how people react to spiders or confined spaces. We don't say femophobia, noirphobia, karenphobia. We only say homophobia, and I think that's to poke at the masculine tendency to say "I'm not scared!" And I agree, they aren't scared, they just don't like it. It's okay. We are a nation of people that don't like each other.

Disagree. They are scared, but not scared of being physically accosted. They are scared that gayness will “rub off” (or, of being perceived as gay, especially when they know they’ve engaged in certain actions and thoughts they don’t like to acknowledge).

Have you ever felt these feelings? Worry that someone's sexuality will rub off on you?

Do you ever look at someone's dusty husband and think.... shit, if I hang out with them, will I become attracted to ogres too?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I simply can’t believe we are heading back to the ugly days of 1950s. Why are white straight men so scared of people who are different from them? I can’t believe my kids have to grow up in this ignorant hateful mindset when I thought we evolved over the last decades? It’s very sad. The saddest part is that hateful people will explain it away or deny it while voting for racist misogynistic homophobic policies. Our society is doomed. - signed, white straight female

When you make such disgusting statements about a certain group of people based on skin color, gender, or sexual preference, while painting them all with the same brush, you are truly no better than the specific people you are actually referring to. You're probably better and smarter than this; act like it.

It's not racism to point out racism. Stop being ridiculous.

When you paint all people with the same brush based on skin color, sexual preference, religious belief, gender, or any other meaningless identity characteristic, you are indeed a very low IQ bigot. Bigotry in any form does NOT get a free pass!

Cool story. Are you denouncing racism with the same fervor you’re using to denounce the people who are denouncing racism?

I denounce bigotry and racism in all forms. I would never suggest that people who are straight, gay, white, black, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Hispanic, Asian... are inherently racist due to them being straight, gay, white, black Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Hispanic, Asian... because that would make me a bigot.

Are you suggesting that white supremacy does not exist, or that it exists but we should not talk about it because Not All White People?

To be fair, Hispanics and Asians are overrepresented among white supremacists. The most notable alleged white supremacist is a half Mexican guy and the leader of the proud boys was afro Caribbean. 80% of donations to proud boys were traced to people with Asian names. So if you're going to talk about white white supremacists, let's talk about all the POC white supremacists because they seem to be leading the charge.

Proud boys are a complete joke as far as stacking up against groups of bigoted people around the world. The bigotry that still exists in the US pales in comparison to the hate and intolerance that can be found in some Asian, African, and European countries. This being said; a single drop of bigotry is too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The worst part about these times is to know there’s so many hateful people in the country. Some are really grotesque & sadistic.

Have you seen the DHS /ICE snuff videos? WHO LIKES THAT STUFF?

And they’ve been here ALL ALONG. They were harboring these feelings as so many of us were hopeful under Obama and excited about having a female presidential candidate. The whole freaking time there was a plot for the white men (also largely religious nationalists) and their apologists to derail our progress. They were the kindling lying in wait and MAGA was just the match they needed. I grew up in a red state and seeing so many people I know, who I would have sworn are good people, latch onto this ideology and become increasingly hateful and paranoid has been a horribly sad part of the past decade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's unfortunately not just the white men. There are white women who are into this turning back the clock. They are afraid and acting like jackass*s.

I’ve also seen a fair number of people whose parents are first gen immigrants jump on the MAGA train. I don’t get it. Like you are supporting the people who would have barred your family from entering just a generation ago. They don’t even want you here if they had their way!