• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Another example of the Scots fighting for freedom … they’ve been doing it successfully for thousands of years and they’re still doing it!

    I will never in my life ever understand the fight against gay, lesbian, bi, queer, LGBTQ+

    They are a fraction of the population yet the majority causes them immeasurable harm simply because they exist. The louder they persecute, the more prominent LGBTQ+ movement becomes … it’s contradictory. If conservatives had just left them alone, there would almost be no issue about any of this at all.

    There are far more important debates and fights to be had in our society … namely the fight to preserve the survivability of our species in the coming centuries … yet here we are fighting about who gets to show or not show their tits!!!

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      1 year ago

      Conservatives need a demographic to hate. This one is perfect because they will never be Conservatives, and most hardcore Conservatives can’t stand to see homosexual PDA.

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        they will never be Conservatives

        I wish that were true, but I have family that is deeply conservative and so is her wife.

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        1 year ago

        If they let up on hating an outside groups for a moment, people might notice that they have no policies that anyone wants.

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        I just had a look at the global demographics

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation

        Those identifying as a different sexual identity from heterosexuality averages less than 10% of the overall population … it could be argued that LGBTQ+ people who are stigmatized would be less likely to report their actual identities in these surveys … but in progressive countries like Canada, Australia and most developed European countries who are supposedly more progressive and open still show a minority of the population identifying as such.

        It will forever be a stupid reason to fight over identity of any gender or identity in anyone … especially at this point in our history when so much more should be more important to all of us … we’re facing an existential crisis right now as a species and instead we are spending a lot of time and energy debating our sexual morals and preferences?

    • CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      There’s nothing to understand. It’s about hate and fear. Conservatives, specifically the alt-right, uses pre-existing prejudices to whip fear into their followers so that they get distracted.

      “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

      You can change this to whatever out-group they have chosen:

      • Trans-people
      • autistic people specifically
      • LGBT people
      • neurodivergent people
      • gay people specifically
      • muslims
      • non-white people
      • black people specifically
      • Catholics (if you’re protestant)
      • Protestant (if your Catholic)
      • left handed people

      The list literally goes on. All so that their followers get distracted from the people who are picking their pockets.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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        As far as I’m concerned, the only minority group of people we should all actively persecute is the ultra wealthy class of people who represent a small fraction of the global population yet control overwhelmingly all the wealth in our civilization. They would rather watch the world burn than in allowing anyone to create any kind of equitable society to share even a fraction of the wealth in our world.