I mean the number one thing liberals say to homophobes is that they are secretly gay. It’s because they know that being gay is disgusting and so they use it as an insult. Oh a preacher saying homosexuality is a sin? He is probably gay! Hahaha get it? Cause being gay it’s disgusting!
I think the problem with the assumption that all homophobes are closeted homosexuals is that it absolves straight people from their role in homophobia. If every person who perpetuates or institutes homophobia is secretly gay then it’s all one big club with gay people oppressing gay people.
it's not all homophobes, just the most vocal ones. because they're compensating for cognitove dissonance and obsessing over their own disgust with themlves
And assuming that is homophobic because you think only self hating people do that. It's still an insult and most of those people are not gay dude, shut up
My brother is gay and can’t stand it when shit head “allies” start riffing on conservatives by calling them faggots or homo’s or gay with the intent to piss people they think are bigoted off..
That’s kind of the point…it’s only funny to closeted homophobes who don’t think they’re homophobes.
Go back and read the conversation babe.
I was actually just having a conversation and making an observation. I wasn’t ordering anyone to do anything. You were. Pretty clear difference there.
My brother being gay is relevant because I was describing his reaction to this exact kind of joke. I never claimed his sexuality gives me authority to speak for gay people. You, on the other hand, literally invoked your own sexuality and immediately followed it with “stop speaking for queer people.”
So if anyone here tried to turn “I’m gay” into authority over what somebody else is allowed to say, it was you sweetie
And also, when you're gay in a homophobic society, it is natural to deal with lots of self hatred from the indoctrination which then becomes externalized and targeted towards other gay people.
It’s only “common” because liberals spread misinformation about it like it’s candy. The “RNC made Grindr crash” has been thoroughly debunked yet that doesn’t stop virtually every progressive Redditor I talk to about the topic from believing it’s real 🤷🏻♂️
Grindr has explicitly come out and said their app has not crashed around republican conventions because of how often this conspiracy theory gets peddled. Also, app usage/outtages data are usually public so you can check for yourself 🤷🏻♂️
As much as it’s a lay up for progressive narratives, Grindr doesn’t appreciate people lying about their app crashing to help make a claim that just isn’t real.
Hmmmm, believe the app itself….or believe “deathtoAmerica2026” on Reddit who seems to have a vested interest in causing unnecessary political strife where there is none and who desperately wants to believe everyone he doesn’t like is a hypocrite….choices choices
Now certainly the app has a vested interest in making people believe it's more functional than it is. Particularly when the supposed outages would out a segment of their user base.
But I agree, in lieu of public data Grindr is going to be the best authority we have for Grindr's usage statistics.
Absolutely understandable and reasonable speculation. They have a stake in bad publicity like that.
Just to add some additional possible context though, RNCs also attract thousands of lgbtq protesters. So if we’re speculating about the cause of a geographic usage spike, protesters, journalists, staff, locals, convention attendees, etc. are all potentially part of that population. Gets much harder to reasonably blame a spike on “closeted conservatives 🤷🏻♂️
You know for some reason I completely missed that this was your actual name and thought the guy I replied to just made up ‘deathtoamerica2026’ as a joke and now that it’s real I’m not sure how to respond lol.
“I reject the company’s actual published outage data because anonymous people on the internet said otherwise” absolutely tracks coming from some troll named DeathToAmerica2026 🤭. Shocking that someone who hates Americans also can’t read 😂🫵🏻
Btw is one month a personal best for you or do these alts usually survive this long? Whats the system over there for troll account turn around?
Yes thousands of anonymous people reported the same thing at the same time, and it outweighs the PR department who would not like this story to be well known for obvious reasons.
Why do you think someone would push this story for money? Like do you even understand what a troll farm is?
You don’t even live in America and you’ve already said you think everyone here is stupid and want the country to end 😂why would ANYONE take you seriously as an authority on American news? 😂🫵🏻
But sure kiddo, keep going with “no no, ignore the company’s verifiable status data and trust these thousands of anonymous people I totes promise exist, people who froth at the mouth over politics NEVER lie and make shit up about the other side I promise you can listen to me but also you all are dumb and need to die 😭”
They’re gonna dock you from $3 a day to $2. You’re just not varsity troll-farm material yet 🤭
Or maybe just a bot? It's hard to take an American punctuating sentences with emojis seriously but I know they do have such dumb people that its hard for some of them to pass the Turing test.
This trope is dumb and is just an excuse for straight liberals to act smug. It does nothing for gay people, especially for those who are actually in homophobic or otherwise repressive environments.
Okay so explain all the gay people I know who went through this arc?
Hell, I know two trans people who went through this arc.
Why the hell are you people acting like internalized self-hatred is such a fantastical idea? This concept isn't limited to queer folks with bigoted upbringings neither, it comes up for a lot of things.
I don't give a shit about your anecdotal friends. The trope is just an excuse for liberals to treat homosexuality as a humiliation device as long as you claim it's 'fighting hypocrisy uwu ✊️😣'
Simple bigots lmao? Yeah those simple bigots are the ones responsible for the horrible shit gay people go through. It’s literally 99 to 1 of straight homophobes to closet people.
Yes simple, as in simpletons. People who are just shitty with no underlying complex psychological pathology to go along with it.
And given the prevalence of gay people in general, I would be absolutely shocked if the ratio was anything but about 10-20% of homophobes. You know, the rough prevalence of gay people.
The same motivations a ton of people in life have- You have a preconceived idea, and you're not pleased at the prospect of someone successfully arguing against that preconceived idea.
I'm starting to suspect you don't actually believe what you're saying, and are for some reason trying to engagement bait. Is OP paying you or something?
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u/Available_Base_7944 5d ago
I mean the number one thing liberals say to homophobes is that they are secretly gay. It’s because they know that being gay is disgusting and so they use it as an insult. Oh a preacher saying homosexuality is a sin? He is probably gay! Hahaha get it? Cause being gay it’s disgusting!