• exanime@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    This is exactly how stereotypes work. And no, they should not be taking super seriously even if they do tend to come from some real life examples

    Personally, I am not super concerned if claims against homophobes are spurious, they do not seem to mind claiming gay people are pedophiles in disguise for example

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      6 months ago

      But as I said, it suggests that queer people are the homophobes. That’s my issue. It lessens the bigotry issue if the implication is that cishet people aren’t the ones being homophobic.

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        6 months ago

        Not it doesn’t… some fruits are apples, apples are not all fruit

        Again, I do not know what you are fishing for but I don’t care to follow

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          6 months ago

          Yes it does, since every time someone is in the news for being homophobic, people chime in to say they’re in the closet. Every single time.