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Joseph Worthington: The only other culture that I can think of that hates gay people more than hip-hop culture would be Islamic Fundamentalists.

LET'S ALL EMULATE A BUNCH OF THUGS, catching on more and more--I've watched the hope I had many years ago of the possibility of gay acceptance pretty much go down the toilet. So many of the strides gay people have made are pretty much RUINED by that culture. Maybe YOU haven't been called the names, maybe you haven't seen people call other people names, maybe YOU aren't nervous around people who act like thugs, but I AM! I'm not willing to go back to the way it was in the 60's and 70's, I'm not willing to go back to the times that Brokeback Mountain describes, and that's EXACTLY where hip-hop culture is bringing us.

We're supposed to move FORWARDS, not BACKWARDS, and backwards is EXACTLY where hip-hop culture is taking us. Intolerance, violence, misogyny, treating women like crap, the list goes on.

I would say that redneck culture is 20 times more tolerant of gay people than hip-hop culture, than gang culture. I've been out-of-the-closet to rednecks--they can handle it a LOT more than gangsters and gangster wannabes, which is pretty much what I equate hip-hop culture with--gangster wannabes, since that's what they seem to admire and look up to.

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