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.
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.
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.
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.
I mean good for you, but as a fellow homosexual, I demand acceptance.
Tolerance is a pathetically low bar. We deserve equality and respect.
Respect is not deserved but earned on a individual basis for demonstrating good character. It has nothing to do with your sexuality.
https://kottke.org/18/05/the-respect-of-personhood-vs-the-respect-of-authority
That’s literally acceptance…
Wouldn’t the opposite of acceptance imply eradication?
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.
Eww, you sound like a maga
Congratulations ! You’ve been brainwashed.
It sounds more like they’re conflating “acceptance” with “tolerance”, which isn’t the same thing.
I’m curious, what about that persons response makes you feel they’re brainwashed?
The fact that they find normal that their homosexuality isn’t accepted.
So… Your brain is dirty?