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Title: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: Angel Eyes on May 17, 2022, 07:11:18 PM
https://www.theblaze.com/news/muslim-soccer-player-rainbow-jersey


TL;DR: French soccer player, who is Muslim, refuses to wear rainbow jersey in support of LGBTXYZEIEIO, sits out the game instead.  The usual suspects want him punished.

The money quote:  "Homophobia is not an opinion but a crime."

Is Islamophobia also a crime?
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: kgbsquirrel on May 17, 2022, 08:58:18 PM
Florida Nightclub shooting already showed that the progs rank muzzies higher than homos.  I expect it to follow accordingly.
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: Pb on May 17, 2022, 10:32:20 PM
In the USA Muslims rank higher on the victimhood scale than homosexuals.  It may be different in France.
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: zxcvbob on May 17, 2022, 11:09:59 PM
Florida Nightclub shooting already showed that the progs rank muzzies higher than homos.  I expect it to follow accordingly.

That's only because they are afraid of the muslims
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: kgbsquirrel on May 18, 2022, 01:06:53 AM
A group identity that is solely recruitment based is always going to be at a disadvantage to a group identity that expressly encourages multiple breeding partners and fecundity.

Islam just brings more bodies to the political table than homosexuality.  If you're a politician operating on identity politics it only makes sense to choose muslim over gay.
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: K Frame on May 18, 2022, 07:28:15 AM
Yes.
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: WLJ on May 18, 2022, 09:43:26 AM
Remember folks, it's racist to judge other cultures
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: zahc on May 18, 2022, 09:48:55 AM
In the USA Muslims rank higher on the victimhood scale than homosexuals.  It may be different in France.

France has a more or less regular cadence of Islamic terrorist beheadings in the street. So yes, I expect it's different there.

If you count catholicism and protestantism separately, lslam is now the most prevalent religion in France. So at some point it will flip
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: Pb on May 18, 2022, 09:57:05 AM
France has a more or less regular cadence of Islamic terrorist beheadings in the street. So yes, I expect it's different there.


That is why it is odd... you would expect the French pols to love Muslims more than homosexuals... and yet here they are berating a muslim for not loving homosexuals.
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: MillCreek on May 18, 2022, 10:43:32 AM
A group identity that is solely recruitment based is always going to be at a disadvantage to a group identity that expressly encourages multiple breeding partners and fecundity.


Recruitment based?  So people are gay because they dropped in at the gay recruitment center and signed the contract?
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: cordex on May 18, 2022, 11:11:02 AM
Recruitment based?  So people are gay because they dropped in at the gay recruitment center and signed the contract?
Do you think sexual preference is 100% unchangeable and never impacted by social pressure or abuse?
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: MillCreek on May 18, 2022, 11:29:04 AM
Do you think sexual preference is 100% unchangeable and never impacted by social pressure or abuse?

Do you think people choose to be gay or straight?
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: cordex on May 18, 2022, 01:25:12 PM
I'm more than happy to answer your question, but I'm curious as to why you didn't even attempt to answer mine.
Do you think people choose to be gay or straight?
I think that people are born with an innate preference (predominantly heterosexual and bisexual, and a few strictly homosexual).  I think that sexual preference (as well as other sexual behavior within a given preference) absolutely can be influenced in at least some children by learned social norms, social pressure, as well as by being victims of sexual abuse or violence.  As far as individual choice, I don't rule it out as a possibility but I think it is vastly more common that it is a confluence of factors both inherent and societal that take place well before a person is likely to make any sort of conscious choice in the matter.

I believe there are some people for whom there is never any option, and that others can be swayed one way or another depending on what they experience as children.

What about you?  Are you a genetic absolutist?
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: kgbsquirrel on May 18, 2022, 01:35:16 PM
I'm more than happy to answer your question, but I'm curious as to why you didn't even attempt to answer mine.I think that people are born with an innate preference (predominantly heterosexual and bisexual, and a few strictly homosexual).  I think that sexual preference (as well as other sexual behavior within a given preference) absolutely can be influenced in at least some children by learned social norms, social pressure, as well as by being victims of sexual abuse or violence.  As far as individual choice, I don't rule it out as a possibility but I think it is vastly more common that it is a confluence of factors both inherent and societal that take place well before a person is likely to make any sort of conscious choice in the matter.

I believe there are some people for whom there is never any option, and that others can be swayed one way or another depending on what they experience as children.

What about you?  Are you a genetic absolutist?

Very well put and spot on.
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: MillCreek on May 18, 2022, 02:13:01 PM

What about you?  Are you a genetic absolutist?

The latest data of which I am aware of suggests that a genetic component probably accounts for a relatively small proportion of orientation.  I am interested to see the continuing work on prenatal factors in the womb.  But at the end of the day, the etiology of orientation is irrelevant to me: I appreciate all orientations as friends, colleagues and relatives and I don't share the personal, political, or religious concerns that some very fine people have.  We agree to disagree.
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: WLJ on May 18, 2022, 02:19:05 PM
I use to try to be more of live and let live on these matters.
Unfortunately the left seems determined to ram this stuff down our throats 24/7 now.
That's what grinds my gears.
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: cordex on May 18, 2022, 02:20:06 PM
The latest data of which I am aware of suggests that a genetic component probably accounts for a relatively small proportion of orientation.  I am interested to see the continuing work on prenatal factors in the womb.  But at the end of the day, the etiology of orientation is irrelevant to me: I appreciate all orientations as friends, colleagues and relatives and I don't share the personal, political, or religious concerns that some very fine people have.  We agree to disagree.
As a philosophical exercise, if you had the ability to choose a sexual orientation for someone you deeply love and care about - your children for instance - what would you choose for them, and why?
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: Angel Eyes on May 18, 2022, 02:27:56 PM
I appreciate all orientations as friends, colleagues and relatives

All orientations?  Does that include minor-attracted persons?


(and wow,  has this thread taken a turn ...)

Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: MillCreek on May 18, 2022, 02:35:43 PM
As a philosophical exercise, if you had the ability to choose a sexual orientation for someone you deeply love and care about - your children for instance - what would you choose for them, and why?

Everyone on this board agrees that the very best person to be is a cis white male! 
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: Ben on May 18, 2022, 02:36:11 PM
The latest data of which I am aware of suggests that a genetic component probably accounts for a relatively small proportion of orientation.

It would have to be a small proportion. Genetics would mean it's a non-viable aberration detrimental to the continuation of a species. If it was purely genetic, evolution should have killed off most homosexuals by now so that it would be no more than a percent or so still randomly being born.

Yet now we have "50% of the population is LGBTQRXYZ"
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: Pb on May 18, 2022, 02:57:32 PM
Do you think people choose to be gay or straight?

1) I think some people are born with a strong predisposition towards homosexuality due to genetics or brain damage in the womb.

2) I think some people learn homosexuality due to sexual abuse...(sexual imprinting)

3) I think some people choose to engage in homosexuality like any other weird sexual fetish.  This can be learned through acquaintances, pornography, etc.

4) I think some people learn to engage in homosexuality because women are not available.  I think this why homosexuality is common in the Arab world.

I think the huge increase in homosexuality today is due to 2 & 3.  When society frowned on homosexuality, it was not common, being mainly people in group 1.  When society views it is wonderful, then we see an explosion of it.
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: kgbsquirrel on May 18, 2022, 03:14:34 PM
It would have to be a small proportion. Genetics would mean it's a non-viable aberration detrimental to the continuation of a species. If it was purely genetic, evolution should have killed off most homosexuals by now so that it would be no more than a percent or so still randomly being born.

Yet now we have "50% of the population is LGBTQRXYZ"

A species with a 96% successful genetic plan (2-4% become non-reproductive homosexuals, with 96-98% nominally reproductive-capable heterosexuals) will still successfully propagate itself, hence not "dying out."  There will always be a small % of genetic aberration in each generation of human while the species as a whole perpetuates.

Presently that natural aberration has been politically and culturally amplified and weaponized by other agendas.
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: cordex on May 18, 2022, 03:26:36 PM
Everyone on this board agrees that the very best person to be is a cis white male!
Okay, if you're not interested in discussing the topic you don't have to.
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: MechAg94 on May 18, 2022, 03:42:10 PM
1) I think some people are born with a strong predisposition towards homosexuality due to genetics or brain damage in the womb.

2) I think some people learn homosexuality due to sexual abuse...(sexual imprinting)

3) I think some people choose to engage in homosexuality like any other weird sexual fetish.  This can be learned through acquaintances, pornography, etc.

4) I think some people learn to engage in homosexuality because women are not available.  I think this why homosexuality is common in the Arab world.

I think the huge increase in homosexuality today is due to 2 & 3.  When society frowned on homosexuality, it was not common, being mainly people in group 1.  When society views it is wonderful, then we see an explosion of it.
I am not sure if I would have worded it the same way, but that fits a lot of what I have thought about.  The reasons vary which is why "choice" versus "genetic" is hard to judge as people end up as they are for different reasons.  Those reasons play a large part in if that person's orientation can change or if they even want to change.

Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: Ben on May 18, 2022, 04:12:29 PM
A species with a 96% successful genetic plan (2-4% become non-reproductive homosexuals, with 96-98% nominally reproductive-capable heterosexuals) will still successfully propagate itself, hence not "dying out."  There will always be a small % of genetic aberration in each generation of human while the species as a whole perpetuates.

Presently that natural aberration has been politically and culturally amplified and weaponized by other agendas.

For clarity. I wasn't talking about a species as a whole, I was talking about a genetically homosexual component. If it is a true genetic homosexual (whatever the species) it should become a smaller and smaller percentage of the species population over tens of thousands of years since it's not reproducing itself. But I'm not a geneticist. It just seems the intuitive answer to me.
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: JTHunter on May 19, 2022, 12:29:10 AM
"Phobic"?  No as "phobic" means "fear".
I believe "disgust" would be the more correct attitude.
  [barf]
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: kgbsquirrel on May 19, 2022, 12:55:29 AM
For clarity. I wasn't talking about a species as a whole, I was talking about a genetically homosexual component. If it is a true genetic homosexual (whatever the species) it should become a smaller and smaller percentage of the species population over tens of thousands of years since it's not reproducing itself. But I'm not a geneticist. It just seems the intuitive answer to me.

Not if it is merely a common disfunction of the otherwise normal genetic operation.  As an example, Ehler-Danlos Syndrome will never die out because it is not its own genetic miscoding, but merely a mutation that occurs sporadically during recombination of otherwise normal genetic material (1 in 5,000).  In this case the genetically predisposed fraction of homosexuality would be akin to this mutation, merely a spurious possibility of an extremely complex information encoding system that otherwise works right 98 times out of 100.
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: Pb on May 19, 2022, 10:30:18 AM
I will say that regardless of how sexual desires originate, God expects people to control their sexual desires and avoid homosexual sodomy, fornication, adultery, incest, bestiality and other sexual sins.
Title: Re: Are you homophobic or Islamophobic?
Post by: cordex on May 19, 2022, 10:47:28 AM
I will say that regardless of how sexual desires originate, God expects people to control their sexual desires and avoid homosexual sodomy, fornication, adultery, incest, bestiality and other sexual sins.
I would say that regardless what God expects, the problems that homosexual people face are serious.  They are at vastly higher risk of depression, suicide, drug abuse, sexually transmitted infection, and more.  It is far worse for transgender people.

Since at least high school I've had friends, coworkers, and family that are LGBTAWER@#%O@N#% and it is precisely because I love them and appreciate them I can't imagine pretending to celebrate the burden they bear.