It is very common in the liberal mindset that diversity is something good for others, but not for themselves. An extension of the marriage example would be homosexual and interracial relationships.
Ask the same people whether we should embrace same-sex marriages and they will say yes; then ask (with anonimity) whether they would like their children to be in a same-sex relationship and they will say no.
To be VERY clear I'm not arguing against any behavior or people here. I'm just pointing out the breadth of the hypocrisy.
There's a big difference between "If your child was gay, would you like them to be able to get married?" - and "Would you prefer your child to have to put up with all of the bigotry that they would near-inevitably face if they turn out to be gay?"
My suspicion is more that straight people are the ones who have children and they want their children to be like them. The relationships question is downstream of that - it would be silly if your children do turn out to be homosexual to want them to enter a hetero relationship; that just seems like a recipe for more trouble.
I say this as someone who has never really "gotten" the whole having children thing, so just my take as someone who may have a bit of an outsider perspective.
True-ish. Flip-side, liberals are also stuck in an endless fight against the very common conservative mindset that it is good to denounced, degrade, and perhaps kill people who aren't just like themselves.
But "one rule for me, another rule for thee" was human SOP long before the first pyramid was built.
If liberals sought to deny rights for others while keeping them for themselves, they'd be hypocritical. Preferring not to use them is not hypocritical. I am all for accommodations for the mobility-challenged, while preferring not to be mobility-challenged. Is that hypocritical?
For hetero parents, they probably prefer that their children are hetero as well. But if their children are homosexual, the parents would still prefer their children are happy, can raise children, and enjoy full social benefits. What is hypocritical about that?
Probably most parents would prefer that their children marry within their own race. Yet they'd also not rather that anyone be denied the ability to marry someone of a different race as well.
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It is very common in the liberal mindset that diversity is something good for others, but not for themselves. An extension of the marriage example would be homosexual and interracial relationships.
Ask the same people whether we should embrace same-sex marriages and they will say yes; then ask (with anonimity) whether they would like their children to be in a same-sex relationship and they will say no.
To be VERY clear I'm not arguing against any behavior or people here. I'm just pointing out the breadth of the hypocrisy.
There's a big difference between "If your child was gay, would you like them to be able to get married?" - and "Would you prefer your child to have to put up with all of the bigotry that they would near-inevitably face if they turn out to be gay?"
My suspicion is more that straight people are the ones who have children and they want their children to be like them. The relationships question is downstream of that - it would be silly if your children do turn out to be homosexual to want them to enter a hetero relationship; that just seems like a recipe for more trouble.
I say this as someone who has never really "gotten" the whole having children thing, so just my take as someone who may have a bit of an outsider perspective.
True-ish. Flip-side, liberals are also stuck in an endless fight against the very common conservative mindset that it is good to denounced, degrade, and perhaps kill people who aren't just like themselves.
But "one rule for me, another rule for thee" was human SOP long before the first pyramid was built.
If liberals sought to deny rights for others while keeping them for themselves, they'd be hypocritical. Preferring not to use them is not hypocritical. I am all for accommodations for the mobility-challenged, while preferring not to be mobility-challenged. Is that hypocritical?
For hetero parents, they probably prefer that their children are hetero as well. But if their children are homosexual, the parents would still prefer their children are happy, can raise children, and enjoy full social benefits. What is hypocritical about that?
Probably most parents would prefer that their children marry within their own race. Yet they'd also not rather that anyone be denied the ability to marry someone of a different race as well.