Again, this suggests that you cannot be cishet and bigoted against queer people. That the only people bigoted against queer people are themselves queer. Therefore anything someone who is cishet says about queer people no matter how offensive cannot be homophobic by virtue of having been said by a cishet person.
That’s just basic extrapolation from such reasoning.
anything someone who is cishet says about queer people no matter how offensive cannot be homophobic by virtue of having been said by a cishet person
No, because the moment they say something homophobic they’re queer thus not cishet, though they can still be bigots, it’s a Catch-22, that’s the point, to call the bigot the thing they hate.
Except that the person saying the homophobic thing knows they aren’t queer. Which means what they said can’t possibly be homophobic.
Let me put it this way- there is zero evidence that Charlie Kirk is anything but cishet. Now… we can draw attention to the issue of bigotry by just pointing out that he’s a bigot or we can put the blame of bigotry on queer people themselves in some silly attempt at a gotcha.
I would say that the former is both less childish and less harmful to queer people.
Except that the person saying the homophobic thing knows they aren’t queer.
Do they though do their peers? Does anyone? Again sexual fluidity is extremely common throughout our lives.
Let me put it this way- there is zero evidence that Charlie Kirk is anything but cishet.
I honestly can’t imagine him being with a woman so I disagree.
Now… we can draw attention to the issue of bigotry by just pointing out that he’s a bigot
Yes.
or we can put the blame of bigotry on queer people themselves in some silly attempt at a gotcha.
I would say we put it on the bigot that said it, Charlie Kirk and not on any broad groups at all.
I would say that the former is both less childish
It’s fun to be childish sometimes.
and less harmful to queer people.
I’m not sure it harms queer people at all Squid.
