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Assumptions and Homophobia
Kugai:
Understanding is a three edged sword.
cabbagehut:
--- Quote from: Blood-Tree on 23 Feb 2011, 11:55 ---Only a Sith deals in absolutes..?
It occurs to me that homophobia (i.e. a fear or aversion to homosexuality), and actively discriminating against homosexuals, are subtly different things.
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If I'm understanding your first quote (I've never seen Star Wars, and not sure if I fully understand the reference), yes, I think so? Very rarely are people entirely good or entirely bad. I like to think I'm a good person, but sometimes, I totally fuck that up and need to be called on it. And lots of people are probably don't mean harm, but that doesn't mean that they don't cause it.
I think they are subtly different. I have a friend who is deeply Christian, and I know she thinks that gay people are just "wrong". But I also know that she thinks it's wrong to treat gay people differently than straight people. Jesus loved us all, she says, and we all sin, so let God judge. She's homophobic, but doesn't necessarily discriminate. She's still wrong to be homophobic, no matter what her reasoning, but I can appreciate that she makes a conscious effort (in her mind) to live up to the ideals of loving your neighbor, etc. But at the same time, I can also understand a gay person not wanting to be friends with her.
tbones:
--- Quote from: cabbagehut on 22 Feb 2011, 20:01 ---Yes, I most certainly was! It'd be pretty fantastically hypocritical to criticize someone for being homophobic and then say something like that.
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Sorry sorry, i once had a disscussion with some one that thought that being homosexual could be transmited, and it was pretty fierce. i still have bad memories from it... And i just go nuts when someone even jokes about it.
So yeah, my bad! :psyduck:
cabbagehut:
--- Quote from: tbones on 23 Feb 2011, 12:56 ---
--- Quote from: cabbagehut on 22 Feb 2011, 20:01 ---Yes, I most certainly was! It'd be pretty fantastically hypocritical to criticize someone for being homophobic and then say something like that.
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Sorry sorry, i once had a disscussion with some one that thought that being homosexual could be transmited, and it was pretty fierce. i still have bad memories from it... And i just go nuts when someone even jokes about it.
So yeah, my bad! :psyduck:
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Haha, no problem! And I'm sorry that someone seriously thought that. How terrible!
jwhouk:
(Mods: good job, splitting this one off.)
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