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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mousethief: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Pancho: [qb] What is exactly being considered "homophobic" here? It think that word gets used to label any view that departs from a certain general consensus on the subject by people on the (far?) left and if it used this way on the Ship the Ship is bound to become even more of an echo chamber.[/qb][/QUOTE]Dislike of homophobia is not a far left thing. For a rough and ready definition, I'd say believing or treating LGBTABCDEFG people as inferior in any way to cishet people, or less deserving of services, legal protections, or rights under the law. As to the echo chamber, as pointed out above we do not allow people to debate the relative merits of treating POC as questionably non-human, and yet somehow that hasn't caused us to turn into an echo chamber. Adding one more item to a small don't-go-there list isn't going to destroy the Ship. Except maybe for a small handful of people whose only joy here is talking about the inferiority of the LGBTABCDEFG. [QUOTE][qb]I must also say that, in my personal experience of posting as a shipmate, not everybody's personal experience is valued equally. [/qb][/QUOTE]Why should it be? The value of a POV is along something of a spectrum. At one end we have "I really enjoy vanilla ice cream" or "I prefer to worship in the Presbyterian Church rather than the Catholic Church because it's less mystical." At the other end we have "I enjoy beating up black people and don't see that there should be anything wrong, let alone illegal, about it." Most of us can agree that the former is unobjectionable and the latter is beyond the pale. But there's a whole range in between, and there has to be a line, albeit a fuzzy one, between the okay and the not-okay. And different people will draw that line in different places. Because the Ship is a predominantly liberal place, the line will be drawn closer to one end of the spectrum than the more conservative members might like. And that's pretty much a take-it-or-leave-it feature of the Ship, unless and until the management turns over in a conservative direction, including Simon Jenkins, or the conservative members can make a really compelling argument that the line should move. (Compelling to the powers that be, not to other conservatives.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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