talking points that piss you off

[Old Man Willow]

"The government is trying to destroy the middle class"
"Corporations and the 1% are destroying the rest of the country"
"A woman has a right to do whatever she wants with her own body"
"Homophobia is the same thing as racism"

[Old Man Willow]

"A woman has a right to do whatever she wants with her own body"

You don't agree with the principle of self-ownership?

The talking point pisses me off when used in situations that don't apply, or involve someone else (abortion).

[Old Man Willow]

"A woman has a right to do whatever she wants with her own body"

You don't agree with the principle of self-ownership?

The talking point pisses me off when used in situations that don't apply, or involve someone else (abortion).

Someone else being a bunch of cells... oh boy...

'Militant atheism'.

And it's brother talking point, "militant secularism" as Baroness Warsi put it...

We are all a bunch of cells.

[Old Man Willow]

"Homophobia is the same thing as racism"

Wait wait what ?

How is homophobia different than racism exactly ?

Um, one is basically pre-judging or hating a race of people who just happen to be of a differently ethnicity. Another is a natural feeling of unease at abnormal sexual attractions.

To me, their are black people and white people. I don't recognize 'gay people' as a group, I recognize that certain people have abnormal sexual attractions, but that's doesn't make them a special group to me, no matter what the particular attraction may be.

There is nothing biologcally 'off' about people born of a different race, it is part of the identity. Abnormal sexual attraction is obviously biologically 'off' since it has no natural purpose. Therefore, feeling uncomfortable towards it is natural, and for alot of people probably would not fade with more exposure like racism.