Well, fine. I feel a little silly defending a person I know nothing about, but it just seems like he was a bit put-off by the overt homosexuality in the film. So what? I'm curious, why does it bother you that some people, who aren't mean-spirited or violent about it, are hesitant about accepting homosexuality? He's not inhibiting anyone from doing their own thing and he even apologized to you. It has no effect on you whatsoever if someone is harmlessly, latently ignorant about homosexuality. He's free to think whatever he wants to think. That's not libertarian mumbo jumbo, it's common sense.
I think there's a line between rational, thoughtful reservations and out-and-out discrimination, yes. Religion is a big factor in this, the environment a person lives in, etc. Most people don't have cut and dried, simple opinions about this kind of stuff. You're so quick to jump the gun at everybody when, most of the time, they're not only saying nothing worth getting upset about, but they're often on your side. I think you're so cartoonishly irrational about this, yes, it annoys me a little. I think you should take a deep breath and try to step in someones else's shoes and just look at things more objectively, man. And I realize you think I'm a dumbass homophobe, but I'm not.
And I think you should take a breath and try being a hated minority, maybe you'd realize a thing or two about my "irrational" behavior. I hope it's not too difficult to understand why, given the current power balance between homophobes and homosexuals, I find your plea for a more tolerant approach to homophobia ridiculous.
Because homosexuals aren't people, silly.
And that was a joke, adidasss. There are a million reasons why there are varying degrees here, man. Some folks can't grasp the idea of people being born homosexual, for one, but you're not going to find anyone who can't understand why somebody was born with a different skin color. Homosexuality is such a departure from the established norm for some people and, of course, religion plays a huge role, too. There's no passage in the bible that says "black people are evil", but it does say homosexuality is unnatural and icky. I think you have to be more accepting of people who have a hard time coming to terms with homosexuality because of the way they were brought up or what they were taught. You don't have to tolerate abject bigots, but I think you do have to tolerate the people who are legitimately misguided or those who aren't hateful in their misgivings about homosexuality. I can still respect people who have mild reservations with homosexuality, and I definitely don't think it automatically qualifies them as a dumbass.
And that was a joke, adidasss. There are a million reasons why there are varying degrees here, man. Some folks can't grasp the idea of people being born homosexual, for one, but you're not going to find anyone who can't understand why somebody was born with a different skin color. Homosexuality is such a departure from the established norm for some people and, of course, religion plays a huge role, too. There's no passage in the bible that says "black people are evil", but it does say homosexuality is unnatural and icky. I think you have to be more accepting of people who have a hard time coming to terms with homosexuality because of the way they were brought up or what they were taught. You don't have to tolerate abject bigots, but I think you do have to tolerate the people who are legitimately misguided or those who aren't hateful in their misgivings about homosexuality. I can still respect people who have mild reservations with homosexuality, and I definitely don't think it automatically qualifies them as a dumbass.
Apropos mark's analogy: what would have happened had someone declared they thought Do the right thing was a terrible film because it had a lot of black and hispanic people in it? Everyone would have gone on their merry way because he has a right to be annoyed by those people? Well, I certainly would have objected because like I said, I have a zero tolerance stance towards discrimination, and unlike mack, I think any discrimination based on an innate quality makes you a dumbass. There is nothing rational about it, no matter what a 5000 year old scripture says about it.
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