barbos
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I know It's not shocking anymore, but still mildly ironic, right?
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Anti-LGBT lawmaker 'led a secret life as a gay man
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I'd say more hypocritical than ironic. When you want to use a position of power to oppress others' lives because of your own self-hate, you're an evil person.
barbos
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But is it really a self-hate? I think politicians look at it as paying job.
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I think of this sort of thing as a big D'oh.
True. He could just be a hypocrite for cash.
Underseer
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It's hardly ironic. Studies show that more homophobic people are more likely to be gay. He's just another typical conservolibertarian hypocrite.
Similar to the male feminist who turns out to be a grouper, harasser, raper. Anyone who puts their virtue-signaling to 11 probably exhibits that behavior they're self-righteously against.
sharon45
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And what we hear from these supposed studies is not even crinkling paper.
Hypocritical, yes. Self-hate, I don't think so. Rather, it's a disguise. They were raised in a culture that says gay sex is wrong and they know that culture isn't going to approve of them engaging in it.
barbos
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Yes, that's what I think too, except "hypocrite" does not accurately describe them I think. Hypocrites don't realize they are hypocrites. In this case he knew he was lying, hence correct term is "politician".
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They don't?
repoman
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Would this guy show up as gay for the AI face test?
barbos
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Well, true and honest ones
barbos
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Probably not. But he looked somewhat gay to me on the photo. Any videos with him speaking?
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It's more than that. People, particularly emotionally stunted people who have not gotten past their own ego, naturally are going to assume everyone else is like them. They see their own gay fancies as things that everyone experiences, and because they are a "godly straight person", they only see their gay acts as momentary lapses, again things to be ashamed of. They fight their whole lives against "temptation" and "sin" and their hate of gays is born of the perspective that gay people don't even bother to fight the same urges that they themselves struggle with daily.
A lot of it, in this way, comes down to something that they were taught to hate, a part of them that they see as EVIL. And a part of them knows it was always only ever them, that they might be lying to themselves, and that the hate for the "sinful temptation" is really just hate for themselves.