Yogurt commercial featuring lesbian couple enrages hate group

[Felton]

From their site:

What does selling yogurt have to do with gay sex?

What does sex in general have to do with the vast majority of products it's used to advertise?

[Eksrae]

Here’s the real argument that needs to be settled.

[redesigned]

@Mister44

I used to sleep naked, after I learned Teddy Roosevelt did.

I’m pretty sure he had hair pajamas on, the guy was a bear.

[ChuckV]

[LDoBe]

You’re encouraging someone we can only assume is a mis-socialized bigot to practice eugenics?

[popobawa4u]

@LDoBe

You’re encouraging someone we can only assume is a mis-socialized bigot to practice eugenics?

In a semi-snarky way. I am pointing out the irony that fighting homosexuality may have made it more prevalent. And that the way to put the genie back into the bottle is to encourage homosexual behavior unreservedly. The reality of it could do some bigots heads in if they think about it. Which might be expecting too much of them!

[LDoBe]

You know if this person is really interested in hurting gay people, your advice could drive them to campaign for anti-gay adoption legislation as well.

Gay people have as much of a right and are just as qualified to adopt and raise children as straight couples. Why feed their hate.

[popobawa4u]

@LDoBe

You know if this person is really interested in hurting gay people, your advice could drive them to campaign for anti-gay adoption legislation as well.

I don’t think so, they were ruminating about homosexuality as a genetic trait. If that’s how they think it works, then adoption would be irrelevant. Do adopted children take on the genetic predispositions of their adopted parents?

@LDoBe

Gay people have as much of a right and are just as qualified to adopt and raise children as straight couples. Why feed their hate.

I like taking poorly thought-out ideas and celebrating the absurdity of their logical conclusions. It lets the cognitive dissonance bubble to the surface.

It may seem risky to go with a rhetorical gambit which sounds encouraging. But bigotry tends to be so poorly thought out that it’s really easy to give people some benefit of doubt and test the ideas in earnest, rather than take the obvious position of opposing them. I think people learn more about their biases this way.

[LDoBe]

I agree with you on your second point completely. That’s why I asked that @Luke_Poston explain themselves.

I guess you and I are champions of different methods to try and achieve the same effect, ie getting someone who appears to not have thought much about an issue to think about what they’re saying.