After all, what did homophobes ever do to anyone
*checks notes
Oh dear God.
This Holocaust Remembrance Day, let’s think of the poor Nazis…
God that sounds awful in headline form.
Pride month is absolutely not an excuse to say “current homophobes will never get better, so they all need to blah blah”. Their current behavior is intolerable, but through continued exposure and humanizing influences, the people can be reached. It’ll go from hatred to extreme discomfort to mild discomfort to … something more normal.
Unfortunately I’m a crappy communicator and I can’t figure out a way to reduce that to a headline without making it some kind of division-promoting reductionist garbage. Sigh.
The nuance is what’s important, but also impossible to appropriately abbreviate as you said. All I’ve got is this:
From The Naked Gun 33-1/3: The Final Insult
I guess this guy never heard about Popper and the paradox of tolerance :
If a society’s practice of tolerance is inclusive of the intolerant, intolerance will ultimately dominate, eliminating the tolerant and the practice of tolerance with them.
It’s a social contract. If they want to opt out of the contract they don’t receive the tolerance it offers.
Get bent.
I understand there are voters who think the earth is flat. I absolutely do not accept them.
June is not about accepting homophobes.
I’m not a fan of this guy, but let’s give credit where it’s due. The article headline is trying to rile us up for clicks. It took his comments about “building bridges to bring both sides together” and accused him of encouraging acceptance of homophobes. Aren’t there plenty of bigots out there to fight without twisting “building bridges” into “accepting homophobes?” Aren’t we better than this?
With a brick
