• @[email protected]
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    68 months ago

    People who say it now are like that, so “normal people” don’t say it because it would automatically mean being grouped with them.

    you’re get hung up on the word. There’s no hetero struggle, where people were mistreated or had to hide only because they were straight. Only a total idiot would do this.

    • @[email protected]
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      -48 months ago

      I still don’t see why something that rightly stopped being a source of shame should turn into a source of pride.

      The circumstances of hetero and non-hetero people are vastly different and that’s obvious, but that doesn’t mean they should be “proud” of that. Saying you’re proud of something doesn’t make the people who discriminate you for it disappear.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        but that doesn’t mean they should be “proud” of that.

        It’s like talking to a wall. We get it.

        Saying you’re proud of something doesn’t make the people who discriminate you for it disappear.

        Jesus Christ, who said that?

      • Flying Squid
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        08 months ago

        rightly stopped being a source of shame

        Except it hasn’t. Huge swathes of American society is still incredibly homophobic. Kids are shamed by their parents. Kids are kicked out by their parents. Meanwhile, we have groups like Moms for Liberty that want to send gay people back into the closet.

        Half the country is trying to make being LGBT a source of shame. That you don’t even see that is shameful in and of itself.

        • @[email protected]
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          18 months ago

          Except it hasn’t.

          Half the country is trying to make being LGBT a source of shame.

          If there are people “trying to make LGBT a source of shame”, it means currently it isn’t.

          You know what I meant and I know what you mean, but it’s not what I was talking about. If someone is proud of something they clearly aren’t ashamed of it, I was talking about civilized places, not red states where people can’t even wear pink stuff for fear of being labeled.