• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      You don’t just become bigoted against queer people.

      im pretty sure you can. It’s not like you’re born with the gene that makes you hate gay people or something. There was that recent couple that came out denouncing the republican party due to their trans kid. queer people were once completely socially unacceptable, now they’re like, pretty socially acceptable. My guess is that musk wasn’t entirely supportive of it before, or just wasn’t very outspoken about it, or that it was actually a much longer more gradual change than it feels like.

      Also let’s be honest, if someone offered either one of us a billion dollars for saying that we hate gay people, we’d take the money and run.

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      3 months ago

      You don’t just become bigoted against queer people.

      Sure they do. Being a bigot is not something you are born with. It’s not inherited. It’s something learned. You become a bigot.

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          3 months ago

          People experience live altering ideas all the time. For example, sometimes a religious switch is flipped on, sometimes it’s switched off.

          LGBTQ bigotry can be reverted if the right person is introduced.

          But in Musk’s case I suspect all previous positive messages came from his PR and cleanup crew, maybe Grimes, not from him.