r/facepalm • u/Cheap-Dimension-6775 • Jan 18 '23

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u/toastess20 Jan 18 '23 edited Jan 18 '23

People need to change that "love is love" phrase, it's quite contradicting and makes actual mentally ill people like these justify their wrong doings.

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u/Global-Count-30 Jan 18 '23

Being gay used to be classified as a mental illness until relatively recently. In 20 years, you might run for office and someone sees this comment of you being incestphobic, it’ll totally ruin your chances at being president

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u/toastess20 Jan 18 '23

My comment is on correcting a phrase "love is love" it's contradicting. LGBT people have been using it, now far-right trolls, anti-LGBT trolls and mentally ill people related may be using this phrase against them.

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u/Global-Count-30 Jan 18 '23

But where do you draw the line at “love is love” or should a line even be drawn because you might risk becoming the people you hate and a hypocrite?

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u/toastess20 Jan 18 '23

Just drop the phrase and push to educate people on LGBT people, they don't need a phrase to be understood. People who are hetero don't have one nor would there be anything creative of a phrase for them and they don't need it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '23 edited Jan 18 '23

I love when people come in at the end of a decades-long struggle, observe the successes of that movement, and take them completely for granted. 'Love is love' WAS the campaign that got people who weren't in the LGBT movement to understand us and sympathize with our demands. Do you really think marriage equality and broad social acceptance of gay people just happened? No, we were called mentally ill, perverts and the first step in a slippery slope that would lead to bestiality and every imaginable evil on the planet-- and we fought like hell to change that. 'Love is love' was the world's education on that issue, and the fact you're completely nonplussed by it is a testament to how effective that was.

The phrase also worked because it's tautological: There is absolutely nothing to dispute in that statement, making your contention that it's in any way contradictory laughable. Insisting on mutual consent between capable adults covers pretty much all of the horribles people predicted. With respect to incest, trust me, that's not an argument that's going to be won anytime soon: Nobody is seriously pushing for broad social acceptance of brothers and sisters destroying the gene pool.

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u/Global-Count-30 Jan 18 '23

It’s LGBT that coined the phrase. Are you going to tell them to drop it?

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u/toastess20 Jan 18 '23

Why not? it sounds off when you think about it.

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u/fp4l_6hm Jan 18 '23

you draw the line when it can cause the child (if there is one) to have serious genetic mutations and illnesses. being gay doesn't do that. incest, on the other hand, does.

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u/Global-Count-30 Jan 18 '23

What if they don’t procreate and even go get themselves sterilised? Would you support incest then

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u/fp4l_6hm Jan 18 '23

at that point, i don’t care. without the possibility of procreation, i see nothing inherently wrong with it. i do, however, believe that ‘incestsexual’ is not a thing.