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Re:Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice by philwelch on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @11:18PM (#693155)
Except it's not the life mission of every gay person in the world to fix everyone's prejudices about gay people. It's exceptional and brave when someone does (not that it's exceptional and brave to come out of the closet, but it's exceptional and brave to go around fixing other people's bigotry).
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Re:Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice by grandalf on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @11:29PM (#693174)
Of course not, nor should it be. It's just fascinating to think that there are so many bigoted people who care deeply about one or more closeted homosexuals -- whose world view would be shattered (and bigotry destroyed) if they found out.
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Re:Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice by philwelch on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @12:12AM (#693233)
Well, that's the optimistic outcome. The pessimistic outcome is that the gay child gets disinherited, the gay friend loses a close friend, and so forth.
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