• In my opinion, the word "homophobic" nowadays is being thrown around like it's nothing, if you don't support the lgbtq movement that basically means you hate them, 'talking from experience' .
• I've been seeing lots of tik tok viral videos of homosexuals shaming heterosexual people for no reason, as if it didn't take heterosexual individuals to bring them into the world...
ImaGinE bEiNg sTrAiGhT iN 2020
Now if it was Imagine being homosexual in 2020 all hell would break lose.
My point is you shouldn't discriminate anybody because of their sexuality.
So to the lgbtq community, before you throw the homophobia card make sure you're not as hateful as your oppressors x
Why is it just a "joke" when homosexuals shame people for being straight, but "homophobic" when straight people do the same?
Honestly im glad this is being talked about, it's the same for racism, any race made fun of by whites is racist, but making fun of white people for their race is a joke. It's also usualy the same for gender as it's more often considered sexist to joke about women tan men. This is because white, straight, men are considered the most normal, and therefore being the majority means they aren't a minority that can be picked on. Also, when it comes to racism, white people are more often talked about so they are seen as the racist ones meaning you can't be racist towards them. Same thing goes for sexuality and sometimes gender. I think that it should either be treated as joking for everyone of all minoritys in all categories or everyone should be allowed to get offended, when one race, sexuality or gender is seen as more discriminitory than others, and others are treated differently because they are seen as a minority (even if it's being protected more by people who are against discrimination) Is also a form of discrimination. Offering more or less to anyone based on their ethnicity, gender or choices should be considered equal discrimination. Of course, most people say my oppinion on this doesn't matter as i admit, i am straight, white, and a man.
No problem, waiting for the hate comments to roll in, LGBT has suffered quite a bit of discrimination, but if you did some research people have also been attacked for being straight. I'm not saying they don't deserve support, everyone does, and i am super encouraging of that community, but just because they get it a little more does not mean they are the only ones who should be offended by comments against them. I personally think people need to let jokes go.
Because lgbt like other communities have certain privileges.
Because they where hurt in the past and they are considered a "target" community, they get away with being dicks to others and shaming them and if you say anything, it's considered worse because they either "didn't mean it that way" or "You aren't a victim in the world"
I'd just ignore them and not give them the attention they so desperately are looking for. They just want a reasons to argue and cause trouble
Homophobic is basically someone back in the 1980s who was literally scared to be around gay people because they were passing around HIV/AIDS by ass pounding other men in truck stop bathrooms. Before people understood much about HIV/AIDS or how it was transmitted people were afraid because there were no effective treatments and it was death sentence. People didn’t want to be around gay people because they didn’t want to catch it. They didn’t know if it was air borne, transmitted by fomites, passed in spit, etc. People didn’t want to be around gay people, work with gay people, have gay people handle their food, etc. because they didn’t want to catch the gay disease and die. That’s what homophobic is. The alphabet soup crowd is just ignorant as fuck and they behave like fucking assholes.
Because all of this is about destabilization not equality. The goal is to upturn society, upturn our system and that means giving some groups privilege and others get oppression for no particular reason to create as much strife as possible in order to destabilize society (think about it, why is it that if you have a white character in a show playing a nonwhite character its racist BUT being annoyed that they are replacing every white character with a nonwhite actor is also racist? Shouldn't that also be racist? I mean if a white character plays a black one and its racist the reverse must be racist as well yet they are arguing the opposite. Its because it has nothing to do with race OR equality. Same goes for homosexuality and every other group that has "victim status").
People like throwing around words like homophobic because thinking of themselves as a victim is convenient but also because character assassination is a powerful tool. Gay dudes who do that kind of thing and insult heterosexual guys tend to be the type of gay dude who has no valuable or interesting aspects to their personality whatsoever and so they choose to base their identity around their sexuality since otherwise they'd just be a boring nobody. I know it's becoming more and more common for gay men to act like faggots, but just remember there's a lot of gay men who aren't faggots. Men like Charles XII and Frederick II should be role models, not worthless losers like James Charles.
It's not and never was about equality.. Like feminism it was all about more power for societal revenge.. People of the LGBTQ+ community are seen as the noble oppressed, and which since they were somehow "oppressed" they can do little wrong.. I agree though..
Imagine not been a lizard in 2020. Honestly tho Saying imagine not been homosexual makes zero sense and yeah ain't right if they say saying imagine not been straight is homophobic. however if they said Imagine not been "Bisexual" i wouldn't mind that because i am guessing as the future goes on more and more people will be so and it's just a process of evolution on that one. But I don't know not like these jokes bother me.
I myself do support the LGBT community but I do think the term homophobic gets thrown around too much at times.
With that being said, it is important to understand that the LGBT community still does suffer from discrimination. They are often the target of hate-crimes and there have been laws made that have discriminated against them.
^I'm not saying they deserve to be bullied or disrespected, but if you want people to respect you, first respect yourself and the individuals arounds you. It's hypocrital to go around fighting for freedom and fighting against discrimination just for them to turn around and do the same thing they were fighting for.
Oh I agree, it absolutely doesn't give them the right to be arrogant hypocrites! I was just pointing out that actual homophobia does exist though even though the term is sometimes thrown around loosely, thats all :)
In the English language, the word n** is an ethnic slur typically directed at black people, especially African Americans.
The word originated in the 18th century as an adaptation of the Spanish negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger, which means black.[1] It was used derogatorily, and by the mid-20th century, particularly in the United States, its usage by anyone other than a black person had become unambiguously pejorative, a racist insult. Accordingly, it began to disappear from general popular culture. Its inclusion in classic works of literature has sparked modern controversy.
Because the term is considered extremely offensive, it is often referred to by the euphemism the N-word. However, it remains in use, particularly as the variant nigga, by African Americans among themselves. The spelling nigga reflects the pronunciation of n** in non-rhotic dialects of English.
Yea Wikipedia forgot to add something. White people and Asian people cannot use the N word but black people can, it's not double standards. The N word was used during slave trade, as a way to demean the black man, at the same time in ethiopian language "negus" means ROYALTY it means you're glorifying your skin. So the word nigga is for 2 things, to call each other royalty, and it's to show eachother that we aren't slaves. Then we can call eachother nigga because we've retaken that word. However even if a white person says it to me, even if they're not being racist to me I don't care. You don't use the N word because the way your ancestors used it to my ancestors it wasn't no play word.
White folks indoctrinated them into accepting their supposed inferiority. These narratives illustrate the success of this campaign of mental terrorism, and no word conveyed the depth of this internalized oppression more than “nigger.” We all have freedom of speech. But if you think you're entitled to use a "racist slur" towards black people, I dare you to call a black man/woman "Nigga", face to face. Don't cry if you get punched in the face.
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