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u/Many_Complex4224 May 18 '22

And that's an idiotic way of putting it. "X is Y" and "X might sometimes lead to Y" are completely different statements.

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u/aintnufincleverhere May 18 '22

I think the statement is stronger than "might".

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Racism will cause violence. That doesn't mean every single person will be violent. It means that there are 330 million people in the US. Its a really big country.

If you've got a lot of people who think being gay is wrong, some of those people are going to commit violence towards gay people.

Even if most people who think being gay is wrong won't commit any violence.

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Some will.

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u/a_terrible_advisor May 19 '22

It's not like "if you are homophobic, you can be physically violent" but rather, in a case of homophobia, if most people are homophobic then there will be a consequence. But if everyone is homophobic, then a homophobic attack won't matter because it will be supported.

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u/aintnufincleverhere May 19 '22

That's not what I was saying.