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Behind the Aegis

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10. No worries. I understood your post. It just gave me a good jumping off point.
Sun Feb 2, 2014, 05:03 AM
Feb 2014

I also agree with what you are saying (as well as what you said to Fearless). This idea that some are claiming to be "victims" because people refuse to tolerate intolerance is just beyond ignorance, IMO. I believe there are gays who can be discriminatory, even bigoted against heterosexuals, but it is rare and the idea that we have any way to enforce it at a societal or institutional level is absurd. Some of it comes from misuse and/or understanding of certain terms; discrimination, bigotry, prejudice. I think you saw the comment from one poster a few weeks back, it was a video explaining the terms (or something to that effect) and it was spot on!

I will admit I actually giggled when I saw the actual term "heterophobia" used. Sometimes, stupidity is simply funny.

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