• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I think they so often are claimed to be. How many actually are? Have there been some? Yes. Do we actually know how many? Even a rough estimate?

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      7 months ago

      I think they so often are claimed to be

      They portrait themselves as raging homophobics just to then pretend to be gay? I don’t follow

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        7 months ago

        I think that other people often make the claim that homophobes are secretly gay and I’m asking if we actually know how many, even based on a rough estimate, that applies to. If not, it’s a spurious and rather disturbing claim.

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          7 months ago

          This is exactly how stereotypes work. And no, they should not be taking super seriously even if they do tend to come from some real life examples

          Personally, I am not super concerned if claims against homophobes are spurious, they do not seem to mind claiming gay people are pedophiles in disguise for example

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            7 months ago

            But as I said, it suggests that queer people are the homophobes. That’s my issue. It lessens the bigotry issue if the implication is that cishet people aren’t the ones being homophobic.

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              7 months ago

              Not it doesn’t… some fruits are apples, apples are not all fruit

              Again, I do not know what you are fishing for but I don’t care to follow

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                7 months ago

                Yes it does, since every time someone is in the news for being homophobic, people chime in to say they’re in the closet. Every single time.

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        7 months ago

        18 people vs. every single person who says anything homophobic that gets reported on the news since people always claim that person is closeted.

        Which is my point.