How do you answer when someone asks you if you are “homophobic”? If it has never happened then you don’t get out much. It is like calling someone “racist”. It is meaningless as used and has nothing to do with what is going on, but it changes the conversation and puts you on the defensive. If you let it.
I choose to reject the manipulation. So, when a student raises her hand in the middle of a conversation on the Electoral College and asks me, “Are you homophobic”, I have answers ready.
My favorite? I ignore their question and ask “Are you hetrophobic?” My theory is that if you can have an artificial term made up by the homosexual lobby you should also have an artificial term coined by the non-homosexual lobby.
Not wanting to learn anything new, she kept asking the question. I kept repeating my response. Eventually she gave up and we moved on. It is amazing how people who don’t want to think try to derail you by asking the latest politically correct question. I don’t like to play their game. Instead I change it to my game.
Are you heterophobic?
homo unius libri
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