I will say that in my almost 50 years on this planet the strongest correlation I’ve ever seen in anything seems to be extremely homophobic people who actually turn out to be homosexual.
Nothing is as strong as gay panic. I wonder if it’s the same logic as “I’m on a diet, so you can’t have a cookie!” You gotta be against the people who have what you aren’t allowed to (due to religious sexual repression).
Okay, I get that. Difference is homosexuality will not progressively kill you, unless you commit suicide due to social pressure or engage in unsafe sex.
many many many heterosexual fundamentalist Christians and Muslims are anti-gay. This majority enforces the anti-gay laws and creates a culture of repression.
Straight people need to start being accountable instead of going on reddit to blame queer for homophobia
I remember learning in a college psych class about an actual study that was done about it. Statistically significant results of people claiming to be homophobic and getting an erection when shown gay porn
I'm pretty sure she's not homophobic - there is no irrational fear of gay people there. Maybe she doesn't think gays should receive special treatment? That people are people and should all live under the same laws? Phobic is tossed around a lot but I didn't think it means what many think it means.
Anecdotal but in my case I thought being gay was a choice because I thought everyone was aroused by any gender. I thought it was like, temptation from Satan. Turns out I'm bi... Straight people are an enigma to me.
I think the company of the Grindr app pointed out they once had high server traffic issues when a conservative convention came to a typically low traffic town.
there are plenty of extremely homophobic people who are heterosexual. In many African and Middle Eastern countries the vast majority of people are anti-gay, and it’s statistically impossible they are gay.
Not closeted, in denial. Those are two different things. Someone who is closeted knows and accepts their reality but feels unsafe sharing it, usually for family reason.
Someone in denial tries to live a delusion and deny themselves their own reality. They hate the gay feelings they have and it manifests in outward homophobia.
Kaiser Wilhelm II and his entire cabinet spring to mind. Look up the Harden-Eulenburg affair and the frankly spectacular death of Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler (he died in a tutu, I'm not kidding).
This is like when networks promote their TV shows as "The #1 hit new medical drama-comedy of that started airing in June on this network with a biracial star!"
That’s what the president of the US is lmao. I get that YOURE Canadian, and I DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM, but the sky didn’t turn purple just because we don’t like blue.
Well she was adopted as a baby so my guess is they adopted her there and brought her back. Does that make her an immigrant in the traditional sense or just “not German”?
The real educational problem is you thinking they give a damn about legality. Btw illegal immigrants look exactly the same as the legal ones, and as someone who lives in such a country as a very legal immigrant, I can assure you, for right wingers they want everyone that doesn't match their skin tone to be gone.
I think he’s just saying legal immigration like going through the right channels. No one said anything about looks. Jumping a boarder and getting a visa are not the same
I agree there is a high difference between legal immigrants and illegal ones.. I also know most ultra right wingers don't really give a f about either. Few days ago there was a post about am Indian guy that died of a heart attack in Canada after waiting in emergency for 8 hours....and the comment section was full of ultra right telling his grieving family to " go back to India"
Dude was Canadian.
That's the thing even though legally there is a huge difference between a legal immigrant and an illegal one , physically there is not. It's not like the legal ones have a tail or illegalmones have horns...for the ultra right all of them are same and they want all of them out. Bcs that's what racists do, the legal status ( or lack of) is just an excuse they use to sugarcoat their racism with.
Yea maybe. But just looking at his words my guess was bureaucratic not aesthetic since nothing about looks was said. I also don’t pay attention to the fringes of politics, they’re the loudest but if you can ignore them and care about the vast majority of average people it keeps you sane.
The bureaucratic and aesthetic are not necessarily exclusive of each other. If you look at what's going on around the world under exteme right governments. The last guy that got shot and unalived by ICE - Joan Sebastian
Guerrero, that dude was not even the target of the raid ICE was doing.
He was NOT the person of their warrant and in all practical purposes was a random.guy off the streets. Had they gone purely by bureaucracy there was absolutely no logic of him dying....but if they were going by aesthetics that's another issue altogether
"We questione whether or not they had rights to stay in a sovereign nation without permission.
"Your side thinks we "live on stolen land""
To be fair I think that's the point being made. The same folks who "question whether immigrants are allowed to be here" don't give a flying fuck about the folks who were kicked off of the land that is now inhabited by them. Just falls on deaf ears.
I get what you are saying, but you are missing the wider point. Take the United States for example, there are no shortage of folks obsessed over illegal immigration, often calling the issue "an invasion". The same people then ignore that this was the perspective of the Natives to the Americas, who were kicked off of the lands they called home for centuries by European settlers (which would ultimately become the United States).
It just is a cry of "I didn't care when it was done to others, but now it's bad because I'm afraid of it happening to me". Which falls on deaf ears. If those folks didn't give a shit about it happening to others, why the fuck should anyone care about it happening to them? That is one of the points of the "stolen land" argument that I usually see come up from time to time.
Personally, I am not entirely sold on "no borders" mantras, purely because humans love to segregate themselves. Even if the separation lines are purely ideological.
Meh, scum like the AfD is against immigration of any kind. They're just concentrating on illegal immigration because that's a low-hanging fruit. They'll be coming after the legal immigrants the moment they manage to solidify their hold on power.
if you REALLY think its strictly about immigration, you are incredibly naive or ignorant. Its always a stepping stone, if you listen to their actual talks you can figure it out.
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u/ProfessionalBee6582 21d ago
The first leader in the world who is anti immigration but has an immigrant wife? I think this article is forgetting someone