When the left memes
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Completely unrelated, but I had a thought last night about the word "homophobia".
The big thing with rainbow gays is that "it's not a choice"; gay people are just made that way and so we should tolerate their existence.
People who suffer from, say, agoraphobia are the in the same boat; for whatever reason they're deathly afraid of something with no rational reason for it.
So it follows that, unless the rainbow gays are misrepresenting a series of very serious mental illnesses to push their politics, "homophobes" also have no choice in their irrational fear of gay people. It is not just cruel to use the term as a slur against them, it is even more cruel to put up flags, subvert popular media, and hold public events specifically to trigger them.
Tl;dr: stop picking on homophobes, it's just the way they were born.
Dont concede the language.
Visceral revulsion at degeneracy isnt a "phobia", it is a perfectly natural reaction.
I've already seen the groundwork get laid for the response there. They'll bring up how "hydrophobic" just means that something is repelled by and unable to mix with water. Applying that to things like homophobic sounds agreeable enough - then anyone convinced by that argument will help peddle it elsewhere.
Fortunately I have not seen this really take off yet. Maybe once normies are less afraid of naughty feelings like hate and revulsion.
Ive been suggesting homotaedic or homotaedium for a while. The taedium meas "disgusted by or bored of" which is closer to how normal people feel about fags but social pressure prevents them from expressing it.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/taedium
Sounds good. Basically making a new suffix out of an old word, right? I'm unsure about how it ought to conjugate or whether it would work better with the common english spelling (dropping the "a").
I think you're right that that's a common feeling, even outside of a response to homo stuff. Could apply it to other tiresome things, like diversity or globalism, etc. Provided you find latin root words for those as well. I think it could take off in the future, though - this feeling is set to only compound in response to the unrelenting campaign.
I am not happy about conceding linguistic ground, but I find myself abiding by such changes in favor of easily communicating with normies. Fully reverting all definitions is too big for me, but I try to hold my own line in the sand.
A lot of times, I'll just ask the other person to define a term they're using because it's shocking how often people use words with a weird definition attached. And then I'll use their definition instead of the term, (like an autist) because it's ridiculous to agree to new definitions on a whim.
You're talking about a group of people who will post a 600 paragraph Reddit screed about white supremacy and then go to a protest and gleefully make monkey noises at a black cop.
Stop trying to apply logic to leftism. They know they're hypocrites and they don't care.
Actually they know they're using the made up term "homophobia" incorrectly and that always pissed me off more than anything. Their intentional abuse of the language. Even before all this SJW nonsense took over I was like "what a stupid word, it's not a phobia".
That's a very smart come back.