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What usually causes these problems is not one's views, but how one expresses them. You happen to have a very brash and exagerated way of putting across your points. If you present yourself the same way in person, to a friend, as you do in PP then it's understandable that they may not want to be around someone like that. A friendly discussion usually has a very different tone than a political discussion among relative strangers.

There is a reason many don't discuss politics and religion among most of their friends and family.

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Originally Posted by Umma

Though I had girlfriend since I was 14 and when I found out she was a homosexual, I stopped seeing her as often and now I haven't spoken with her for about 2 years. Of course, that's different because it's not an insignificant issue.

Well that's another thing. What is an insignificant issue to some, is a significant issue to others.

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Originally Posted by How Unfortunate

The Chinese were pissed off about how glossed-over Japanese textbooks were on WW2. Pissed to the point of boycotting and rioting. Therefore, China-Japan trade and Japanese-owned foreign businesses were affected by the negative sentiment. Some pretty ridiculous threats were thrown around at one point by various low-level politicians.

Yeah but, you took the position that it's better to keep their population blissfully ignorant instead of admiting to themselves the attrocities commited. The price of printing a few books is all that supports that position. I can see how she might take it negatively, seeing as she is Chinese and all. For *some* reason people don't always take kindly to ignoring/marginalizing attrocities in the name of saving a few bucks. Go figure.

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Originally Posted by Umma

To be a close friend of someone with either of those traits, yeah. I feel that way.



No no. We were 14 when we met. It was one of my friends who found out about her being homosexual... kind of, but then confronted her and she admitted it. I was 17 at the time. I *might* have overreacted back then; we're not close friends anymore because of how I started being around her after that.



That's the kind of thing I'm afraid she might do.

This is a rare opportunity indeed. May I ask how you justify and rationalize homophobia?

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There are plenty of reasons to distance yourself from friends. I was just a little surprised that yours was a concern that she might molest you.

Wouldn't that same concern go for guys with whom you are friends as well? Aren't they supposed to be sex crazed, at least as much so as lesbians?

I mean no personal offence, I'm sure a Lurker will give you enough of that. But the mentality is one that I can't figure out. I mean, you more or less said that it was an irrational feeling, so, why let it determine your behaviour instead of working against something that you can't justify?

I was speaking idiomatically.