s0denone said:
Noelveiga said:
I always propose this thought exercise when homophobia comes up: Imagine it's racism and change "homosexuals" for "blacks" in whatever you just said.
Let's try it out, shall we?
"You just need to tolerate black people, you don't have to like them.
I don't like black people, but I won't treat a black person any different because of it. So long as who he is isn't based entirely around his race, I'm cool with him."
Yeeeeah. Not as neutral as you intended, probably.
Are you telling me that people I don't like, I have a phobia of?
I agree entirely with your quote there, with the "black people" in it.
There isn't anything remotely racist in it at all.
People shouldn't be defined by (or "based around") their race at all, they should be defined by their actions.
EDIT: I should note, though, that I don't agree with the "I don't like black people[...]", but that I agree with the reasoning that follows it.
Ah, read that twice, did you? Not so cool with "you don't have to like black people" said openly in casual conversation, are we?
Yeah, I like this game. Let's do the OP. I'm going to go with antisemitism. Religion is clearly a choice, after all, so you should be able to be waaay more antisemitic than you are homophobic, shouldn't you?
"A friend of mine saw a very provocative jewish rights poster in our school. It was two men dressed as rabbis praying. He asked me if was antisemitic if he felt uncomfortable with it . I told him " It's fine to be uncomfortable with it, you're not a jew basher so I don't see a problem". I knew which poster he was talking about. I told him " It pissed me off, but for a different reason". The poster said "Antisemitism is a social disease".When I saw it I thought to myself " fuck you, just because a person isn't down with who you are does not make them socially diseased."
That poster just really bothers me in general. It's really in your face. I understand the fact that the jew community hasn't had it easy, but I don't think you need to be all up in peoples face about it. You're a jew, big fucking deal ( i'm in Canada).I almost want to rip that poster down. Your part of the human fucking race, you religion in meaningless and none of my concern.
In short; Is okay to be uncomfortable with judaism. I say yes.
I'm most likely wrong somewhere in here. I do enjoy other peoples perspective in such things, and love expanding my own perspective."
Gaaah, so uncomfortable to read. Comedy gold, really.