Why are you willing to tolerate sexual perversion but not racism? In a world with no standards, what makes a malfunction of love higher on your standard than a malfunction of hate? Is an irrational lust and longing to mimic the mating act with a sex with which one cannot mate, at its root, any more or less disconnected to reality than an irrational fear and hatred of a Negro? How do we know race-hate is not genetic? Look at how scorned and put-upon racists are! Can we spare them no cheap Leftist pity? Why don't we simply call racism an alternate anti-ethnic orientation, similar to hetero-toleration, but different?
I know I will hear no rational argument to defend the Leftist position. They do not deal with rational answers. They have one and only one weapon in their arsenal: ad hominem. They will not answer, but they will sneer. I suppose a person who gave a tinker's damn about peer pressure or public opinion would fear to be sneered upon by these professional sneerers. For those professional sneerers ready to ignore my words and to condemn me as a "homophobe" let me just ask, why Oh why is it that no one has ever condemned me (or anyone of mine) as a "sunderophobe" -- even though I condemn divorce more severly than I condemn sodomy, or as an "adulterophobe" -- since I don't approve of cheating on your wife either; or as a "pseudophobe" -- since I don't approve of President Clinton.
Why is this one vice singled out for awe and reverence and glorification? Why is it that the lack of self control in sexual matters, where self control is paramount, is held to be immaculate and beyond reproach, whereas the lack of self-control when it comes to something trivial smoking tobacco is scorned?
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First of all, racism causes harm to people, homosexuality does not.
Secondly, that's a really shiny mirror you have there.
Because being gay isn't a "sexual perversion", a "malfunction of love", an "irrational lust", a "longing to mimic the mating act with a sex with which one cannot mate", "disconnected to reality", a "vice" or a "lack of self control in sexual matters".
It's pretty simple when you realise that.
Wright is wrong.
The fact that I am gay has no effect on how I regard black people. The are people with all the rights and privileges that I should have. Actually, I do have them, but then I don't live in the US.
The mere favt that you link the hated gays to black people shows that you have not truly accepted Afro-Americans as full and true equals.
As to the politics of the left, America is weird in that is has two right-wing parties - and two parties only. The left is not evil. If anything, the right wing ensure that the the rich get richer and the poor are victimized to that purpose.
Love between two people of the same gender, even sex between two people of the sane gender, is nothing out of control.
Out of control lust is rape.
Compare rape to racism. Don't compare homosexuality to racism. (They still don't really equate, but they're far closer that this douchebag gets.)
Number one, a "malfunction of love", unlike a malfunction of hate, does not harm anybody, so there is no reason to oppose it. Number two, considering that only two generations ago almost everybody was virulently racist even though their direct descendents are mostly not, that seems like evidence against the hypothesis of racism being genetic. (Or were you trying to apologize for racism?)
Why don't we simply call racism an alternate anti-ethnic orientation
Yeah.
I think the master race has the right to look down at and scorn the genetically inferior white race. After all, humans originated in Africa, blacks are the most genetically stable, have the best physical defenses against disease, are the best at most sports.
By all means, the whites should finally take their place in the second to last row and bow down to the natural order of racial supremacy.
Oh, wait. I guess that's not how you meant it. Tough shit, whitebread, push that broom.
The fact that this person would even defend racists (and even use racist terms) says all I need to know.
Also, you just proved that homophobia and racism are the same.
Let's see. There's no scientific evidence that racism, or any other type of hatred, is something you're born with. It's a learned trait and learned traits can be unlearned.
There is scientific evidence that sexual orientation is something you're born just like the color of your skin is something you're born with. You can't change the color of your skin or your sexual orientation.
Therefore, it seems pretty reasonable to me that I should feel disdain for those that hate others due to the color of their skin or their sexual orientation. Things which they're helpless to change.
How's that for a defense you motherless lump of crap?
Here's a rational argument: Different sexual orientations are acceptable because expressing them is an act between consenting adults, and as long as everyone involved is a consenting adult, it's acceptable.
Racism, on the other hand, is based on hate, and its expression is a form of attack--no one would consent to being treated the way the KKK treats people. Doesn't matter whether it's genetic.
We don't condemn you for criticizing adultery because it is a violation of informed consent, so we condemn it as well (assuming the term does not include open marriages). Divorce isn't, but it is an unfortunate occurrence and often arises from such violations as adultery, so I tend not to oppose criticism of it.
Homosexuality is not a lack of self-control. There is no reason to control it. There is nothing inherently wrong with being gay or with having gay sex (again, as long as everyone involved is a consenting adult).
I can't imagine I'm the first one putting forward this sort of rational argument to you. I think you just choose to ignore such things. Do yourself a favor and open a history book, because it's these "leftists" you so despise who are the only ones who get anything done. Your children will be abiding by our rules - you might as well get used to it.
It doesn't get reverence or glorification. We, unlike you, don't care about the sex other people have, but we will defend everyone's right not to be hurt for having or wanting to have it.
I seriously doubt you live in a community where a confessed divorcee would get her house grafittied with slurs, or be in danger of a beating, or where any man who has an affair exposed discovers that no one will talk to him in public, or that he's suddenly getting death threats stamped with red letter As, for his treason against his sacred bond with his wife.
The odds are decent this sort of thing would happen to a homosexual in a whole lot of places. And that is why they are getting protection. Not their sex-having. Gay-rights supporters who aren't gay themselves generally don't actually care about gay sex, as such, and are not moved by a desire to defend it. They're protecting the people . People matter.
And also, sex is sex. Having it or not having it is no more irresponsible and lacking in self-control when it's had with the same gender than when it's had with the opposite one. Unless the person in question internalized homophobia and wound up having sex when they intended not to, I guess, which (I don't usually pull this card but this time I'm kinda sincere) might be a problem for you?
What a homophobic little rat-turd! And some racism thrown in for good measure too.
@Brendan Rizzo:
(Or were you trying to apologize for racism?)
Methinks "...disconnected to reality than an irrational fear and hatred of a Negro?" belies the apologetic here
Cy said it all for me.
Try to grow up, John.
One infringes upon individual liberty (racism) and the other does not (sexual fetishism, et al).
I have to point out which is which because John probably couldn't tell.
Victim complex round 3759274, aka "Won't somebody PLEASE think of the poor oppressed racists!". Yawn. Get something more original next time.
@checkmate
Racists are fine with racism unless they're the ones being discriminated against. Religious fundamentalists are fine with religious persecution as long as they aren't the ones being persecuted. Sexists are fine with sexism as long as it doesn't affect them. Conservatives and libertarians are fine with oppressing the poor as long as they aren't poor. Practical sociopathy at its finest.
"Why are you willing to tolerate sexual perversion but not racism?"
Because one ends in fun times with ropes, and the other ends with black men hanging from ropes.
This is a pretty big distinction.
Sex can only be called perverted dependent on your definition of what normal sex is. I'm absolutely kinktastic, but I wouldn't call it perverted, because I've always had these desires. I don't see the purpose of equating abnormal with harmful, either. As a pansexual sexual submissive, I'm coming from a very uninhibited mental space, but really? There's nothing wrong with fucking someone who's got the same bits as you've got, or bits that aren't distinctly one or the other.
Why? Because no one is being harmed by consensual contact. In fact, the purpose is opposite; while people may enjoy pain as well as pleasure, the point is for everyone involved to get off in a way they'd like.
Racism, on the other hand, is about nonconsensually degrading someone because of their genetic makeup and physical appearance. It's all about harming others.
Therefore racism = bad, but sexual 'perversion' isn't. As long as everyone is getting what they want, sex is good.
Because we can plainly observe that alleged racial differences in anything worthwhile do not exist and because to violate human rights and exploit a group of people for the benefit of another is revolting. On the other hand, two people of the same gender feeling sexual attraction for each other, loving each other et cetera cause no harm to anyone, and are nobody's business except those directly involved.
Moreover it is interesting that conservatives are beginning to pop up flawed analogies between discrimination against gays and discrimination against blacks; where somehow granting equal treatment to some people is the moral equivalent of oppressing some other people.
It is all the more hypocritical given that these bigots, had they lived 50 years before, would have been the first to stand up for racial segregation.
They have one and only one weapon in their arsenal: ad hominem. They will not answer, but they will sneer.
Jebus, that blew out a whole bank of irony meters. Also, this must be pretty old, what with the Clinton crack. I wonder what JCW thinks of the current incumbent?
What is the world coming to? It's absolutely ridiculous that John C. Wright's thoughts and desires are not immediately acted upon. His barely considered drivel is rightly based on his deluded acceptance of the horrors of the Bible and its myths of a non-existent God, and should be totally agreed with by all similarly minded ignoramuses.
John knows the acme of mankind's intellectual and philosophical genius happened in a middle eastern desert region some time ago. John knows how we have been in decline ever since.
The signs are there for all to see. Look where ye may but all you will see are hospitals, schools, universities and other modern degeneracies.
Where, o where, we ask, where are the vast herds of camels? O where bask the luxuriating herds of women hard at work in their kitchens? Where, o where, can a civilized man find a cool relaxing wallow of goat shit? I defy you to walk down any high street and find an honest-to-goodness beard disarranger. You won't find one because they've been hunted to extinction.
Ah! How John and we all long for the good 'ol days.
Racism is genetic? My father, who was much older than my mother, grew up in the 30's/40's. He was pretty much taught that Aboriginals and other "colored people" were inferior to white people his entire life. Later in life he married an Indian and even warned her that his family might not, erm, take too kindly to her straight away. Thankfully, they embraced her with open arms.
As far as I know, he had to be taught to be racist. It's not like a white baby immediately rejects every black person who tries to handle it.
I love how racists and homophobes portray themselves as heroes fighting against the corruption of society, while in reality they're an embarrassing throwback, desperately trying to rationalize the bigotry they've been indoctrinated with.
Firstly, homosexuality was proven to be biological over three years ago. I know you fundies are determined to ignore science but science doesn't care.
Secondly, you say "I condemn divorce more severly than I condemn sodomy". No you don't. You're lying.
Thirdly, we know that race-hate (and homophobia) are not genetic because GENETICS DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.
This misses something fundamental; the issue of choice. If two adults choose and consent to get involved with each other, then they can fuck each other in the ear for all I care. It's not my business and it's not your business.
A much better analogy to racism is homophobia.
And by the way, anti-homophobia is not specifically a "leftist" position. A homophobic socialist is a perfectly plausible being.
As for the "phobes", could it be because divorced people, adulterers, and ex-presidents face considerably less prejudice than homosexuals?
No awe, no reverence, no glorification here. Just minding my own business. Just realising that homosexuality has always existed, and it's ok. It restricts population, and leads to less competition for mates. Good.
Smoking tobacco gives you and people around you cancer. Fucking someone up the arse doesn't. It's obvious.
For the same reason the Left doesn't accept rape as a legitimate alternative sexual orientation: It brings harm to other people.
Seriously, is "do no harm" really such a complicated concept? o_O
The only irrational here is you, Johnny. Homosexuality is very rational; it's obviously a safety valve against over-population and an insurance that there are always grown-ups available to take care of the offspring, even when the parents are unavailable.
A slight apprehension against strangers is certainly genetic, something that tells us to be wary of unknown people, until we have made sure that their intentions are good. From that to hatred is a fairly long road. Btw, it's not the hatred in itself we scorn, but the mistreatment of the ones you racists hate; the slander and the actions towards them.
Smoking tobacco causes cancer, in the smoker and the ones around him or her. Having consensual safe sex with a person of the same gender does not cause cancer.
We could call you xenophobe, I guess, as you seem to hate everyone that is not exactly like you.
Why are you willing to tolerate sexual perversion but not racism?
Because people having sex in fursuits while defecating on each other's nipple clamps in the privacy of their own homes doesn't harm anyone.
People acting out their hatred of other ethnicities does harm people.
See the difference?
Homosexuality is very harmful to those involved in it, and to everyone whose lives are touched by those who practice it. My own Son was sodomized by a homosexual more than once at the age of 8 years old. Nearly 1/3 of child abuse cases are homosexual in nature, yet homosexuals comprise less than 4% of the population. It destroyed my entire family. You know, I struggle with sin, but I end up ashamed and broken for it. I just could never fathom writhing myself in filth and slime as a lifestyle and demanding that everyone else accept it as good and okay, and moreover, celebrate it!
@ abc123
It might be helpful for you in alleviating your guilt over your son's abuse if you educated yourself about sexual abuse. First, sexual abuse is about dominating and humiliating another person. It is not about sexual gratification.
Second, the perpetrators of same-sex sexual abuse are unlikely to actually be gay. Many of them have active sex lives with partners of the opposite sex. As previously noted, they do not engage in sexual abuse for gratification. They do it because they want to hurt another person.
I feel for you and your son. I truly hope that you are able to find what you need to achieve peace. Rest assured though, demonizing a particular group of people will not accomplish that.
"Why is this one vice singled out for awe and reverence and glorification? Why is it that the lack of self control in sexual matters, where self control is paramount, is held to be immaculate and beyond reproach, whereas the lack of self-control when it comes to something trivial smoking tobacco is scorned?"
Good question! Why is rape glorified?
The rest of this homophobic screed is too profoundly stupid to respond to.
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