The interesting point here is that people believe that if a fact has racist, sexist, or homophobic implications it must not be true. Reminiscent of an earlier

The interesting point here is that people believe that if a fact has racist, sexist, or homophobic implications it must not be true. Reminiscent of an earlier era in which any statements that contradicted church doctrine must simply be false. Indeed, the very concept of a "heretical but true" statement was impossible to comprehend.