Homophobia among animals

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[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Fascinating. Thanks a lot for posting. Great rebuttal to the oft used argument that homosexuality in animals is just a 'natural' phenomenon so there's no reason for humans to have a negative reaction to it. I've always thought that pure disgust many have when it comes to homosexuality must necessarily have a basis in evolutionary psychology.

[–]Fonched 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Great, but I wonder how would you compare that being said to be a natural phenomenon vs. tribalism, which we argue is one? https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2021/10/01/animal-tribalism-studies-prove-that-in-group-preference-racism-is-a-natural-phenomenon-found-throughout-the-animal-kingdom/

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

First of all there's no 'we' here and I've never read Thuletide and have no idea what it is you believe.

Secondly I take it as just an axiomatic ethical reality that White people have a right to self-advocacy. Whether this phenomenon of ethnocentrism exists in the animal kingodm -- and it obviously does -- is totally irrelevant to me and I would advocate for White people whether or not such behaviours were exhibited in the animal world.

Primates display all sorts of interesting behaviour -- for instance they exhibit the same toy preferences in male and females that humans do -- but they're not the basis of my worldview so I don't really care.

[–]Fonched 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

this is a common talking point around here and I only wanted to share the post from Thuletide to illustrate said point. Good analogy otherwise, you just have to see how beneficial the behavior is to us in the first place.