| > it doesn’t matter if your friends are gay or not; the fact it’s a hateful insult that tells gay men they are lesser is enough. I didn't say that, you said that! Why would you think gay people are lessor to straight men? > Imagine the young little gay kid who hears “f\t” screamed 20 times an hour I would ask why a little boy identifies as gay in the first place, a bit young to be making such a big life decision. > how will that make him feel for the rest of his life? You tell me, I'm asking for some empirical evidence to stop doing something humans have done for centuries. > Are you just cementing in his head that it’s wrong to be gay? Why is it wrong to be gay? Also you take on free speech is just simply wrong, these tech companies can be easily classified as natural monopolies like bell telecom was. It's the same problem of the scaling increase of value with every customer but on a whole other level, this is not just a small collection of totally private companies. You would have to be living under a rock to think google is just a little private company with no strong relationships with the US government. |
It’s not about the little boy who identifies as gay in the moment; it’s about the little boy who realizes he is gay later on, and who has already internalized the message “it is wrong to be gay and people will make fun of you for it.”
And it’s not just gay people; this can apply to anyone who is considered “lesser”. The slurs are hurtful; and should be avoided out of empathy for your fellow humans rather than because the government said so.
But naturally there are a bunch of unempathetic edgelords who have to defy authority. So we are where we are.