Post #4744895 · Elektrine

2026-09-11 00:40 UTC

You don’t have to buy it, it’s a fact. Straight people possess the ability to be homophobic, do you deny that? If not, you must accept that by sheer volume, they outnumber any self-hating homophobe. If you do deny the ability of straight people to be homophobic, that is blaming homophobia in it’s entirety on gay people (which is very homomphobic). If you’re just doing the “haha calling the homophobe gay” bit, that’s homophobic by using homosexuality as an insult. Ultimately it just comes down to that, if you see a homophobic person and immediately assume they are gay, that is homophobia. You are linking their bigotry to an alleged homosexuality. What other bigotries do you think someone must secretly be part of the group they hate?

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@dehyzer@piefed.social 2026-09-11 01:52

If you’re just doing the “haha calling the homophobe gay” bit, that’s homophobic by using homosexuality as an insult. It is not using homosexuality as an insult. It’s using hypocrisy as an insult. Ultimately it just comes down to that, if you see a homophobic person and immediately assume they are gay, that is homophobia. No one said that. Republicans are generally more prone to homophobia, yet many of those Republican homophobes are actually homosexual, as evidenced by various high-profile instances as well as the multiple times that Grindr has crashed in the immediate vicinity of a Republican convention. Again – homosexual is fine, hypocrite is not. Especially when that hypocrisy is directly harming other homosexuals through shitty policies being pushed through.

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@resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 2026-09-11 00:42

WRONG.

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