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Aella
@Aella_Girl
man, imagine you think someone is attempting to destroy civilization, and then in the process they get struck down with terrible things directly related to how they're destroying civilization. the amount of sympathy you'd have for them would probably be zilch
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I'm surprised the AIDS epidemic among gay people doesn't have a stronger cultural impact than it did (which is admittedly big!); having ppl get sick and die for engaging in exactly the behavior conservatives disapproved of must have been such intense fuel and justification.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
imagine your hated group of choice (billionaires, russian soldiers, sjws, etc.) suddenly develop a terrifying illness directly from having too much money/entering ukraine/making horrible policies. Would you feel any compassion, or would you be like 'well you got what was comin'?
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Max
@maxinatx
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@Aella_Girl
All the cool kids should be able to dislike your ideas without disliking you Teaching this in school would change society completely
dark mutualist
@cyborg_nomade
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@Aella_Girl
that's probably because gay people are seen as an underdog, and the narratives of Western civilization have been pro underdog for a while now. even those who considered them sinful, probably had a Christian guilt in wishing them death.
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InfinityBall
@InfinityBall
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@Aella_Girl
You're too young to remember it, but people worked really hard to convince us it wasn't a gay thing. (I'm too young to remember if adults believed it) I'm sure the average American still drastically overestimates the chances of spreading through piv