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It depends if you are right leaning because you want lower taxes and smaller government, or if you are right leaning because you are a homophobic, racist.

mod 5y ago
I don't think it does. The two camps are very anti-each-other, and they don't have a lot of nuance for what beliefs get you to your side. In fact, in 99% of my interactions, they don't know how I arrived on my side. I think it's more likely to be divulged by talk about the president or presidential candidates. I don't think this is true of highly rational people, but I do think it's true of most people that I encounter.
- akerl_ 5y ago
  > I think it's more likely to be divulged by talk about the president or presidential candidates Sure, because if somebody says they’re pro-Trump (or really, pro most Republican candidates these days), they’re not saying “I lean towards conservative views”, they’re saying at a minimum “I’m OK supporting Trump because his xenophobia/sexism/etc are lesser concerns to me than his views that I like”. There are plenty of conservatives in tech. The problem is that the modern Republican Party is no longer guided by conservative principles.
Bostonian 5y ago
The word "homophobic" is used to discredit any disapproval of homosexuality -- it must be a "phobia" and is not rational, and the issue is not open to discussion. To answer the OP, especially on social issues, you cannot be openly right-wing.
- akerl_ 5y ago
  I think you may be inventing a distinction. Nobody is trying to make “disapproval of homosexuality” sound worse by making it a “phobia”. It already sounds bad on its own. Stop disapproving of other people’s identity.
  - lolthrowaway1 5y ago
    There are parts of homosexuality which are bad. There are parts of that community which sexualizes children and exposes them to sexual things at far too young of an age under the moniker of "sexual education". There are far too many gay men who believe that just because heterosexual romance (nee crushes) among children are romanticized in culture that homosexual contact should be normalized, romanced and espoused as well (because far too many gay men see sex as the be all and end all of homosexuality) in the name of equality.
- stnmtn 5y ago
  What is an example of a legitimate and rational disapproval of homosexuality?

mod 5y ago

I don't think it does. The two camps are very anti-each-other, and they don't have a lot of nuance for what beliefs get you to your side. In fact, in 99% of my interactions, they don't know how I arrived on my side. I think it's more likely to be divulged by talk about the president or presidential candidates. I don't think this is true of highly rational people, but I do think it's true of most people that I encounter.

akerl_ 5y ago
> I think it's more likely to be divulged by talk about the president or presidential candidates Sure, because if somebody says they’re pro-Trump (or really, pro most Republican candidates these days), they’re not saying “I lean towards conservative views”, they’re saying at a minimum “I’m OK supporting Trump because his xenophobia/sexism/etc are lesser concerns to me than his views that I like”. There are plenty of conservatives in tech. The problem is that the modern Republican Party is no longer guided by conservative principles.

Bostonian 5y ago

The word "homophobic" is used to discredit any disapproval of homosexuality -- it must be a "phobia" and is not rational, and the issue is not open to discussion. To answer the OP, especially on social issues, you cannot be openly right-wing.

akerl_ 5y ago
I think you may be inventing a distinction. Nobody is trying to make “disapproval of homosexuality” sound worse by making it a “phobia”. It already sounds bad on its own. Stop disapproving of other people’s identity.
- lolthrowaway1 5y ago
  There are parts of homosexuality which are bad. There are parts of that community which sexualizes children and exposes them to sexual things at far too young of an age under the moniker of "sexual education". There are far too many gay men who believe that just because heterosexual romance (nee crushes) among children are romanticized in culture that homosexual contact should be normalized, romanced and espoused as well (because far too many gay men see sex as the be all and end all of homosexuality) in the name of equality.
stnmtn 5y ago
What is an example of a legitimate and rational disapproval of homosexuality?