The authors of the single study you cite to support your claim explain that the available literature indicates that anti-LGBT sentiment is *not* stronger among the Muslim community than in, say, evangelical or other white communities.
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Sam doesn’t believe anything he wrote. He is justifying voting for Nazis with the argument that LGBTQ people and their allies voted for the party who wants to ban their marriage because Muslims are more homophobic is laughable. I think he is just trying to justify his support for Nazis.
So to reiterate, to make the claims you're explicitly making, you'd have to present a strong (as in multi-study) evidence base to demonstrate that such attitudes are irrefutably *more* prevalent among Muslims than among all in-groups.
Needless to say, if you understand how research works, you'll know that presenting such a watertight and *universally applicable* case would not only be ethically shaky at best, but also not possible, for dozens of methodological reasons.
So in this case, it appears what you've done is taken your own assumptions based on a stereotype (that Muslim communities are inherently more threatening to LGBT people than in-groups), and created an essay based on that assumption.
Two layers of straw man here. The 'stereotype' isn't that Muslims are more likely to be homophobic than other in-groups; the comparator is whole society.
Second, I'm not claiming that this is definitely true. It hasn't been proven either way, so you can't base a study on the assumption it's false.
also, gay marriage was only legalised in Germany in 2017. It’s untenable to claim that a minority is so badly integrated on the basis of “it believes what most white Germans believed 20 years ago” that we need to consider LETHAL measures (that is the AFD position) rather than assuming teleology.
White evangelicals are not the baseline of society, they're a minority group that happens to be white. If they're more homophobic than average, that should be acknowledged and addressed.
Why are you willing to acknowledge potential problems among white religious minorities but not others?
White Evangelicals are just one example of a homogeneous in-group, which would be a necessary condition for this type of study. Again, your parsing of this subject area seems to be based on assumptions stacked on top of assumptions. That's not how good research works.
That's not relevant. The comparison being made is whether members of a particular group are more likely to be homophobic *than society at large*, not than each other. If they are, then LGBT people are not bigoted for perceiving them as a source of threat.
Stop using my community to justify your Islamophobia. Your argument is so bad it is laughable. These people are voting for the right wing party that wants to ban my marriage because they think Muslims are homophobic and you look stupid making this argument.
Again, I'm not making that claim because I don't think the literature is definitive. But you seem to be claiming that it's definitely false, despite an equal lack of evidence.
This entire conversation proves you’re just spewing biased anecdata to justify your own biases though. It’s just cowardly after-the-fact obfuscating to rely on a point for an argument then run back and say you weren’t making a firm claim so you don’t need evidentiary support.
It's not my job to provide evidence for a claim I'm not making. You wrote the article, it's your job to back your claims. And if you're not making any claims, what is it you're trying to do?
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Second, I'm not claiming that this is definitely true. It hasn't been proven either way, so you can't base a study on the assumption it's false.
Why are you willing to acknowledge potential problems among white religious minorities but not others?
I'm logging off, have a good day.