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Anti-gay stigma is useful to those wishing to exert control over a group via establishing in-group / out-group dynamics. One can remove a social competitor from
by tweedledee 9y ago
Anti-gay stigma is useful to those wishing to exert control over a group via establishing in-group / out-group dynamics. One can remove a social competitor from a group by outing them as gay (even if they are not). The fact that it is capricious and the accusation unfalsifiable is an essential component. A 3rd party tool that can objective establish gayness would take away the subjectively. Society will have to move on to other mechanisms of group control just like we moved on from witchery and heresy.
- sago 9y agoWe moved on from witchery and heresy by establishing objective criteria for determining witches and heretics? (I know you didn't claim we did, just pointing out that your examples don't seem to support your argument.)