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[-] Sekoia 16 points 1 year ago

The point of this post is to point out that the argument of "teachers are corrupting kids into being gay by talking about it and having books with gay people". The fact that most people are straight doesn't factor into it at all, unless you mean that everybody is born straight, in which case you're just wrong. Btw a useful thought experiment in general is to swap "gay" with left-handed. Would you ever say that being right-handed is the "default handedness"? Would you care if a teacher mentions being left-handed?

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you have a pretty loose definition of default, it's easy to conclude that right-handedness is the default handedness. I wouldn't be surprised if OP agreed with that idea.

[-] Sekoia 5 points 1 year ago

Right, but at that point "default" becomes a useless term. Elsewhere in the thread OP said they'd raise their kids "heterosexually" or smth, and if they're consistent with wanting to raise their kids the "default" way, they'd also want to raise their kids right-handedly, as girls (because women make up slightly more than 50% of the population), in Mandarin, etc etc. Nobody's entirely default.

Sure, you could say that right-handed is the default. And? It doesn't impact any other arguments.

Going even further into extremes, over 99% of matter in the universe is helium or hydrogen. By that definition of default, helium and hydrogen are the default state of matter, and carbon-based lifeforms aren't "supposed to" exist.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Excellent arguments. I didn't mean to imply I think children should be raised without mentioning homosexuality.

[-] Sekoia 2 points 1 year ago

No worries, I didn't feel you did!

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