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Originally Posted by Chaos
Basically gonna be one of my last posts in this thread, because it's basically just going backwards and forwards now.
I think the main issue is the word 'Heterophobia' which I think is pretty understandable. It makes it sounds like it's a huge issue, which it totally isn't. I don't think one person in this thread has said it. But when I speak of 'Heterophobia' I mean people taking the piss out of straight people, whether they are joking or not, or when someone states that someone can't have an opinion about 'X' because they are straight, or even puts someone down, because they haven't 'had it as badly as them'. I've seen all of these things happen and if it had been the other way around, then people would go crazy.
Yeah, some people might have an issue with the word 'heterophobic' but to dismiss this and call it something else like 'false equivalency' or 'prejudice' is just wrong IMO. It makes it seem like it's not as important/insulting. Yeah, I'll 100% agree with those who say it isn't as big of an issue as homophobia... But it still happens.
My biggest issue with this is the fact that people believe that different issues stand on different platforms. Which is a thread of it's own I guess. I just view everyone equally and I think there's a point where history doesn't necessarily come into things and it doesn't need to. We've come so far as a world (well, the UK has anyway) and I feel like when people constantly bring up the past, nothing will change. Obviously I'm not saying that we should totes forget how badly gay people have been treated, I'm just saying that there are times where that doesn't matter.
I find the results interesting. It's pretty much split in half and some people voted completely differently to what I expected.
I'm glad that the second time this was opened, people mostly were able to debate without silly name calling. One of my biggest hates about serious debates is when people think it's okay to laugh or make fun of someones views. It's just an opinion, you don't need to call someone a name for it  |
Lovely post and well summed up. Unfortunately i had to step away from the thread after the last attempt turned into what it did and i ended up having to delete death threats from my personal facebook account which i regret ever posting here over a year ago.
A very strange reaction i have no idea why some felt threatened by the idea or why a couple of them were so dim to feel threatened by it (one of them called george apparently)
Im done here this has finished it off for me. Too many idiots.
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