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Is Homophobia Is Morally Equivalent To Racism

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Difference is a quality that allows for individual experience. However difference is not appreciated by all of humanity. Throughout human history difference has been shunned, denied, persecuted and destroyed. The population that is determined to be ‘different’ changes over the decades but the methodology and discrimination remains the same. In this paper the sufferings and trials of homosexuals and victims of racism will be examined in an attempt to determine if homophobia is morally equivalent to racism. This paper will be examining the historical context, modern discrimination and various social movements along with the counter-arguments of limited historical documentation, concealed sexual identities and lack of elaborate social movement in an attempt to prove that homophobia is the moral equivalent to racism.

In a historical context racism and homophobia have been rampant. Early documentation in the bible condemns homosexuality and approves of slavery of those that are different. It is to such an extreme extent that homosexuality is condemned that offenders should be put to death as punishment. A recent historical example of the World War Two holocaust saw the attempted genocide at people of Jewish faith. A not commonly known detail is that roughly twenty-thousand homosexuals, and people perceived to be homosexual, …show more content…

Racism can be traced back almost to the dawn of human history with examples such as mass slavery, wars between countries, discrimination on outsiders, colonization, and assimilation of Native Americans, North American Slavery, the holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide. By comparison homophobia can be traced for roughly the past century with traces of discrimination riddled throughout history. The scale of discrimination inflicted by homophobia is insignificant in comparison to the historical documentation of

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