I’m gay.
I don’t hate Muslims. I don’t want anyone’s rights taken away.
But I’m done pretending.
When surveys show large majorities in many Muslim-majority countries still support the death penalty for homosexuality… that’s not “phobia.” That’s reality.
When progressive activists will cancel a gay person for noticing that, but stay silent about actual theocracies that throw us off roofs… that’s not “allyship.” That’s cowardice.
Woke ideology tells me my sexuality is a political identity first and a personal reality second.
It tells me I must celebrate every culture except the one that produced the liberal societies where I can actually live openly.
I’m not “far-right” for wanting the same freedom in London or Toronto that I already have.
I’m not a bigot for refusing to import the attitudes that would put me in a noose.
Normal gay people exist.
We just want to live our lives without the sermons — from either the mosque or the campus.
Enough.
@ModRightPatriot How liberal are you?
🟦 Free Speech
🟦 Rule of Law
🟦 LGBTQ+ rights
🟦 Seperate church and state
🟦 support Ukraine
🟩YIMBYism
🟦 Nuclear power
🟧 open Immigration
🟨 Free Trade
🟨 Free markets
🟩 Deregulation
(Very complicated) Democracy
🟨 Gun rights
Deep parallels between climate change and demographic decline are one of the most underappreciated factors in the public debate.
Now for the sake of the parallel, I will just assume that the standard narrative around climate change is correct - that it is to a large extent contributed to by human activity and its consequences will be serious.
They are both extremely slow-moving catastrophes (unlike a hurricane, a ballistic missile, or a pandemic) that are the byproduct of uncoordinated decisions by billions of people - responding to a set of sociocultural incentives by having few children and trying to increase living standards whenever possible, which simply means emitting more CO2 with current technologies.
The proposed solutions to them often contradict each other - DO have more kids to help fertility, DON'T have more kids to help the environment.
They both ultimately won't be changed by any governmental effort, and we will just have to adapt to the consequences.
But what is especially fascinating is that those two doom scenarios have a clear political tilt. It is really hard to find a person equally worried about BOTH climate change and demographic collapse. It is just one of those two. We live in an age of widespread doomerism, but people choose different doom scenarios based on their values.
Many of you would understand the world much better if you took 4-5 economics classes, or purchased a textbook and made an honest and rigorous effort to understand it.
Many of you appear to think ~0 about incentives, trade-offs, constraints, or second-order effects.