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[–] 4 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I wonder how the results changed if the question was put a different way. Even I struggle to answer this a bit. I don't think society should "accept" my homosexuality. There's plenty things I don't "accept" either but I just stay out of it then. No need to like it - just don't be a jerk and let me live my life. I don't need your validation.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I mean good for you, but as a fellow homosexual, I demand acceptance.

    Tolerance is a pathetically low bar. We deserve equality and respect.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Respect is not deserved but earned on a individual basis for demonstrating good character. It has nothing to do with your sexuality.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago

    Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

    and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

    and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

    https://kottke.org/18/05/the-respect-of-personhood-vs-the-respect-of-authority

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Wouldn't the opposite of acceptance imply eradication?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Perhaps to some but one does not automatically follow from the other. There are additional steps to be taken in between to get from not-liking to wanting it destroyed.

    In my experience most people don't have an issue with gays existing. The issue is with forcibly shoving that acceptance down their throats.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Congratulations ! You've been brainwashed.

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