A minority of homophobes are gay, focusing on them and ignoring the majority of plain bigots is wrong.

Gays for Trump might not have been individually popular, but there was a lot more “just because we’re gay doesn’t mean we’re liberal!” type shit going around at the time. Remember, Trump ran as the first president to support gay marriage, conservative LGBTQ was trying to be a thing. Yeah it might not be responsible for all of them, but it surely contributed. I’m not dismissing evidence, I’m looking at the context of times that would explain why the gayest RNC ever would cause a Grindr spike.

One instance from 10 years ago, that is pretty funny though

At the RNC, Trump vowed to protect the LGBTQ community against “foreign” threats, and billionaire Peter Thiel gave a speech in which he said he was “proud to be gay.” This has led some to call the 2016 Republican National Convention the most “gay friendly” RNC ever; Grindr’s findings show that may have been true in more than one way.

It also appears to be an outlier as far as Republican conventions go. Remember this is also back when there was the whole “Gays for Trump” thing, so certainly some of those numbers come from publicly gay useful idiots rather than repressed homophobes. Since such conservative LGBTQ groups have fallen in popularity, and the GOP has been much less friendly towards them, I think it’s fair to say “RNC Grindr spikes” are more anomalous than periodic.

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Blaming homophobia on gay people is homophobic.

Grindr really did crash in that area

Source other than the same website cited every time which is based on user submissions? Because it’s a meme and people are incentivized to file fake ones because it’s funny.

I’m literally pointing out the correlation of Grindr being down and then a large number of them leaving

Is the correlation real, or does it just confirm the narrative you already believe because you are homophobic?

and you somehow drew homophobic and anti-Semitic

boy you really must have reading comprehension issues if you think that was what the quote meant. Please make sure your source for Grindr outages actually says what you think, you’re priming me to believe that you’re just gonna link the first result that confirms your biases.

You need help when you have that bad of a victim complex

Ahh yes, everyone calling out bigotry just has a victim complex, classic. Prove Grindr has actually gone down or be silent, troll.

ahh yes, back to the bad faith replies, the last refuge of the troll

It’s a quote about bad faith actors, you like. Like accusing me of Zionism because I called you out on your homophobic remarks.

ahh, can identify him in a meme, but now it’s time to play dumb

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Is your non-reply to my explanation of your homophobia a tacit admission then? Jumping straight to stalking and personal attacks kinda confirms it.

Feel the need to stalk post histories instead of defending your words, a hit dog will holler. Besides you literally just had a comment removed from a pizzacake thread today, and considering the comments that didn’t get removed, I think we both know you’re the real incel.

Sorry if insulting Sam Hyde offends you, I know your type idolized him.

Nothing left to do there after they crashed Grindr I guess

Right there, silly.

Calling homophobic people gay is a) using gay as an insult, homophobic. b) blaming minorities for their own oppression, homophobic. c) creating a narrative where straight people never need to question their biases or prejudices because they know they aren’t gay, and therefore can’t be homophobic (which is a homophobic narrative)

Do better next time, hon

Cool it with the homophobic remarks.

Brother you are literally stalking me for months because you think I’m a lib, you need to stop projecting.

Yeah, stalking users would be really pathetic, wouldn’t it? Stay mad