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Pride flag killing suspect appears to have a long history of anti-LGBTQ social posts
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It's easier to understand homophobia not from the perspective of being afraid of gay people but being afraid of what would happen to society if being gay were not considered a failure state lesser to being hetero and treated as such.
Hence why they keep talking about "cultural Marxism". It's supposed to seem like a threat posed to "Western Civilization" they are VERY afraid of what happens when being gay is considered normal. "Cultural Marxism" actually doesn't have any clear definable meaning aside from a vague implication that any form of socially accepted equality is dangerous to society, and cause for dissolution of the "traditional family" and so on. They absolutely DO frame these subjects in the context of fear. That's why they keep evoking communist wording ( the Nazis used the term "Cultural Bolshevism" for the same purpose) You are already conditioned to be afraid of Communists so you are supposed to draw an emotional parallel. There really is no other purpose for using that term as while Marx himself did have some vague stuff about women's role in society and that they were equally human as men but his works really were more gender blind and focused on how capitalism effects people's lives. Calling him feminist is a bit of a stretch. But the point is to make you scared so you really stop thinking about it in any terms other than "Very bad society destroying thingy".
If they said "Gay people will kill you because they are all great at jujitsu and you should run!" people would think you're a complete moron but "Their existence will erode the nuclear family and cause us to be weak as a society so that our enemies will take us down!" is a more nebulous fear that doesn't stem from any specific completely harmless individual. It makes the existence of them at all as a whole a threat. Or they cam be treated as a threat to one's personal perception of being masculine if ones entire premise of masculinity operates on the nessesity of being perceived as not being desired or desiring men. Hence homophobia - a fear of being perceived as gay.