LGBT are trickier. We're like weeds - we crop up everywhere. Even the most homophobic family can have LGBT family members. Poof, there we are. And that can change views and diminish hate by virtue of our very existence. My more religiously conservative Catholic parents went from having a very hard time when I came out to being extremely chill with gay people over the years.
With Jews, it's so easy to see them as an other and keep them as an other. No one's 13 year old is suddenly having a sneak attack bar mitzvah out of the blue. "L'chaim, assholes!" Doesn't happen.
My Filipino in-laws were not thrilled with me. They're very clannish and Catholic. "You're gay? And dating a white guy?!" Tch. I'm Irish Catholic. I am the white guy. Now MIL is always over because she seems to think our lumpia stores are forever in danger of depletion.
People just need to get tf over it already. So tired of seeing this shit. Particularly from "progressives" whose hierarchy of oppression seems to exist purely so they can reference who they get to oppress that particular week.
Political and ideological coalitions can fall apart just like that, and I have definitely been feeling tested about my own this past year.
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