• Flying Squid
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    419 days 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.

    • @exanime@lemmy.today
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      19 days 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

      • Flying Squid
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        319 days 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.

        • @exanime@lemmy.today
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          019 days 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

          • Flying Squid
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            419 days 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.