connotation matters. anti-LGBTQ sounds like a political stance, homophobic makes it clear there’s hatred and a willingness to deprive people of human rights there.
What do you think politics are? A willingness to deprive people of human rights, that’s politics. “Human Rights” is politics. I agree that its important to take complex concepts apart and study them so they can be understood, but you have to put them back together, otherwise you can’t tell that these gears and belts and levers and pulleys are actually a machine with a function
connotation matters. anti-LGBTQ sounds like a political stance, homophobic makes it clear there’s hatred and a willingness to deprive people of human rights there.
To be frank, “anti LGBT” sounds more extreme to me than “homophobia.” I don’t see this as watering down hatred.
What do you think politics are? A willingness to deprive people of human rights, that’s politics. “Human Rights” is politics. I agree that its important to take complex concepts apart and study them so they can be understood, but you have to put them back together, otherwise you can’t tell that these gears and belts and levers and pulleys are actually a machine with a function