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- From: cherokee@cscns.com (Kangi Taku Wakan)
- Subject: Re: Reasoning with homophobes??
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:25:20 GMT
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- It seems like everyone here has gone off on an anal sex tangent, and
- forgotten the original purpose of this particular discussion. No problem
- with that, it's just that I'd like to backtrack a little bit.
-
- You'd might as well talk about reasoning with axe-murderers, or the United
- States Cavalry of the previous century. Homophobes are people who:
-
- 1) Do not know anything about homosexuals and the emotions they feel;
- 2) Are too insensitive to empathize with anyone, let alone a "faggot"
- (pardon my use of that distasteful word; just to make a point)
- 3) Perhaps as a consequence of 2) above, have no interest in learning
- about the people they roundly revile.
-
- Of course, many homophobes are the way they are just out of sheer
- ignorance and can overcome their unwarranted bias through contact with
- homosexuals and by talking to them and understanding that love is the same
- whether it goes out to one of the same sex or the other one. (I myself am
- an example of a once-nominal homophobe who quickly realized I was being an
- asshole and limiting my own potential for growth by avoiding contact with
- a diverse and fascinating group of people, and not putting myself in
- "their shoes", so to speak, before I condemned them).
-
- There are some homophobes wiht whom one can reason. These people are not
- really homophobic per se, just ignorant and thus fearful or apprehensive.
- It is the die-hard, gung-ho "fag-haters" (once again, I ask pardon), who
- are also most likely racist and extremely closed-minded, with whom one
- cannot reason. You do not reason with a psycho killer; you also do not
- reason with a doorknob. Sadly, many of these hard-core homophobes have
- IQ's that are in the same general range as a doorknob.
-
- Well, people, go in peace. If anyone is offended by what I write here,
- feel free to mail me your flames at cherokee@cscns.com
-
- Kangi Taku Wakan
- a.k.a. Jim Forsyth
-
-