<p>There are already laws in place:</p>
<p>It is illegal to discriminate.
All people are guaranteed the rights outlined in the bill of rights.
Hate crimes are illegal.</p>
<p>but it’s not direct and gays cant marry in every state</p>
<p>i love gay people!</p>
<p>LOL. This stuff always slays me. Perhaps NYU Abu Dhabi would be a better fit for the OP.</p>
<p>I like gay people, takes two guys off the market, better chance for me!</p>
<p>But NO LESBIANS!</p>
<p>j/k j/k</p>
<p>Personally, I really don’t give a crap what you do in your bedroom, it’s not my buisness.</p>
<p>“if you are truly liberal, you would never criticize me so furiously, but you would instead try to reasonably reason.”</p>
<p>Quote of the year!</p>
<p>“I never discriminated against gay people. If I am condemend as homophobic because I put #of homosexuals into consideration for college, then, you should condemn anyone who considers # of asians,blacks,hispanics, and ohter minorities when choosing school as racists.”</p>
<p>Uh… sure, why wouldn’t that be racist?</p>
<p>(Lesbians are gay. I know we all know that, it’s just that some lesbians don’t like the term and call themselves gay. “Gay” is synonymous with “homosexual”, i.e., same sex sexuality)</p>
<p>And JimmyC, we all know that definitions (eh, denotation/connotation) of words change with respect to time. People don’t hide under their beds thinking homosexuals are going to attack. People being uncomfortable around gay people merely because their gay is homophobia. Whether that discomfort is malicious, or whether the person really is at fault is a different story - I just don’t see how it isn’t “fear” nor how it isn’t “irrational.” Your argument is dry. I’d call a person who felt uncomfortable around people of different races a racist. Or someone who would make a logistical correlation in their head about their comfort levels depending solely on a race a racist.</p>
<p>No, you’re wrong. I took the roots for you and defined the word.</p>
<p>If you want to change the meaning, then find a new word. Don’t use an extreme word to characterize someone to advance your agenda. Using radicalism like that doesn’t help your agenda (much like how Jesse Jackson has become somewhat irrelevant because he screams racism at every little thing).</p>
<p>If you don’t approve of them, then you don’t approve of them. It’s simple as that. And contrary to what you want people to think, you can tolerate them but still not like them or approve of them.</p>
<p>And seriously, who do you guys think you are to judge how a person thinks? Do you expect everyone to like everyone else in the world? It’s an ideal that cannot be achieved. If you can tolerate each other, you are in good shape.</p>
<p>In my opinion, seeing the proportion of the group is not [that group]ist (racist, homophobic, whatever). I think it is the actual belief that one is better or worse than another.</p>
<p>For example, I don’t want to go to a historically black college. Even if the school was of Harvard caliber, I probably still wouldn’t want to go. I’m not racist, most of my friends are black, I don’t think of blacks as any worse off. I just wouldn’t want to go to a school with a huge proportion of one group. (I’m African American myself if you haven’t found out.) I wouldn’t be mad if a person of another race didn’t want to attend a predominantly black school, so why would it be any different for sexual orientation?</p>
<p>So, is he homophobic? Maybe. Maybe not. I don’t know all of the details and I don’t know all of the answers. But considering the demographics of the school and how you fit in (especially if it goes against your beliefs/religion) makes total sense. I guess it is how the information is used and the intentions behind it. While its great to experience different cultures and beliefs in college, no one wants to go somewhere that is so new to them that they can not concentrate on college.</p>
<p>NYU=Homosexual Gathering; i.e one of the most LIBERAL campuses in the country maybe minus Stern, which is kind of conservative.</p>
<p>“So, is he homophobic? Maybe. Maybe not. I don’t know all of the details and I don’t know all of the answers.”</p>
<p>Of course he is. It’s well within his right to feel uncomfortable around homosexuals – but it’s still an entirely narrowminded, irrational prejudice.</p>
<p>^Read a dictionary, or a book for that matter.</p>
<p>Not sure I understand.</p>
<p>(z) understands. </p>
<p>they’re* (typos annoys me, I apologize for the one up there)</p>
<p>As for you JimmyC, take a goddamn English language (or etymology) course. Because the more you post, the more I’m convinced you’re a 12-year-old.</p>
<p>^You mad buddy?</p>
<p>I think that gogobet just hasn’t had much interaction with nice normal gay people, or at least that he knows of. The vast majority are wonderful. But there are the totally rude obnoxious ones, the “I’m gay and you’re gonnna love me” in-your-face type that ruin it for everyone. I’ve encountered them, and they’re just rude obnoxious people who happen to be gay. But that is definitely a very small percentage. It’s not what gay people are really like.</p>
<p>So ggb, don’t write off NYU. They won’t bother you.</p>
<p>There are annoying, in-your-face people of all sexual orientations.</p>
<p>New York City is not America; not your average american town. It’s more international, and sometimes, you feel like you’re in Europe when you are in Manhattan. And this guy worries about gay people at NYU = east village = very close to west village and chelsea = gay areas.
NYC or NYU ain’t for you.</p>
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<p>“LOL. This stuff always slays me. Perhaps NYU Abu Dhabi would be a better fit for the OP.”</p>
<p>this actually made me LAUGH OUT LOUD.</p>