The local Portland chapter of the World Naked Bike Ride group posted, “Emergency World Naked Bike Ride coming up in response to the militarization of our city. Plans are being worked on.”

  • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Why the fuck do they have to be gay? Like why do gay people always have to be blamed for the hate? Just because there’s been a few closeted pieces of shit doesn’t mean every fascist is.

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        Oh I hate Fords, must be because I secretly love Fords! What a shitty take that you literally can’t apply to a single actual situation. Name 10 fascist you think are closeted, then we’ll talk about the homophobia you just performed by assuming people are queer.

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        ‘Hate only exists because of closeted queers’ is a fucked up sentiment. Most bigots are bigots for reasons that have nothing to do with their sexuality. Look at who’s running the government, you don’t think there’s a financial and political incentive to be a bigot right now? Straight people aren’t all upright paragons of morality who would never hurt people out of hate. I cannot emphasize enough how regressive it is to blame social problems on queers, no matter how you dress it up.

        If you want to have a discussion about the psychological effects of being in the closet and try to relate that to hurting others, then it’s important to first understand that most closeted people hurt themselves if they hurt anyone, and in general aren’t fucking fascists. The only group that voted less for Trump than queer people was black women.

        This whole sentiment that Trump appointees and party members are all f*ggots in the closet is based entirely in confirmation bias. You don’t remember the ones that are straight because that’s unremarkable to you.

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      Yeah people like them just want to be homophobic, and extremely likely transphobic and queerphobic, but want to look like they aren’t a complete waste of oxygen. Fuck those people, utter assholes

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      Every fascist is a closeted piece of shit, but it has nothing to do with sexuality. They all know deep in their hearts that they’re fascists, but they act and claim that they’re not the fascist, it’s everyone else who’s a fascist. And they resort to violence anytime someone points out that they’re a fascist, because everyone was raised to understand that fascists are weak, scared, little cosplay strongpeople, and their only defense is offense.

      The closeted homophobia could be a contributing factor for some, but the closeted “fasciphobia” is very real for almost all of them. There are those few who proudly call themselves fascists, and they strike fear into the hearts of every closeted fasciphobe who are not yet willing to be seen shoulder to shoulder with an openly fascist pile of crap.

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          Is “closeted” queer language? I’ve never found consistent etymology or history of the word, but language is obviously driven by society. I really hope I haven’t been offending my friends throwing around that word all William-Nilliam… I’m not the most tapped-in person to culture, and even then, I’m unbelievably slow to catch on.