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Originally Posted by adidasss
Wow, really, a "few" flaws in his logic?
Wasn't particularly homophobic?
Wow.
Ok, off the top of my head:
- One article on the Advocate where ONE gay may writes about HIS opinion that people's HIV status should be kept private DOES NOT equal ALL gay men feel this way. In fact, it's the opposite. What IS true, however, is there is a general movement away from stigmatizing HIV positive people and helping them lead more positive and inclusive lives, considering that HIV is now a manageable disease and is no longer a death sentence (unlike what this guy apparently thinks).
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so wait... if you get hiv these days it doesn't necessarily mean you'll eventually die of aids? was there a press release i missed or something?
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- NO country in the world has successfully eradicated homophobia, including the Netherlands (which, btw, is not a model for anything really, considering the recent spike in xenophobia). So yes, mental health issues in homosexuals are definitely still related with the fact that heterosexual people NEVER have to deal with the fact of coming out and acceptance within their own families and social groups and gay people obviously do. Even in the most liberal societies, it's still a very difficult and often traumatizing process.
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right... i mean i'm not a math genius or anything but i think the point he was making was that since, even if they haven't eradicated homophobia in whatever country, if the homophobia is the cause of the mental illnesses then you should see the stats on mental illness fluctuate with the amount of homophobia. and he was saying that the stats stay pretty much constant regardless of the country. meaning all countries have the same amount of homophobia, if homophobia is the cause
i dunno if any of that is true, just demonstrating the logic for you
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All, clearly, biased and hateful bullsh*t. I could do the same thing, pull out random facts about the heterosexual community and make generalized, hateful statements like, most serial killers are heterosexual, white and male, I guess that means ALL heterosexual white males are serial killers?? Crap.
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those stats wouldn't add up because serial killers represent a much smaller portion of the population than heterosexual white males... thus making your conclusion mathematically impossible.