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Human beings are social animals. We do what we see others doing. Occasionally the imitative tendency leads to mass hysteria, as large numbers of human beings convince themselves that there are witches possessing malevolent supernatural power among their friends and neighbors, that Martians have landed on earth and begun a violent takeover, or that large numbers of daycare centers are engaging in Satanic ritual abuse. Human behavior is contagious and spreads to other humans, for good as well as for ill. What societies revere and glorify, they’ll get more of. And so it is that nearly 40% of students who attend liberal arts colleges now say they’re LGBTQ, including a whopping 61% of students at Smith and fully 70% of students at Wellesley.
Long before being LGBTQ was cool, the unsavory sex researcher Alfred Kinsey claimed that 10% of the population was homosexual, but this number was wildly exaggerated. In 2015, it was estimated that about nine million Americans, or a bit under three percent of the population, were LGBTQ. What has changed in America in the last seven years to make the LGBTQ population increase, at least among students at liberal arts colleges, by over 1,300%?
The answer is clear: our society glorifies being lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer, and a group that a society glorifies will grow. This glorification is a product of the Left, and no entities are more Leftist these days than liberal arts colleges. The 40% figure comes from a report, “Diverse and Divided: A Political Demography of American Elite Students,” published by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. According to a Friday article in The College Fix, the report states: “Liberal arts colleges are the least politically diverse. Many have almost no conservatives, and thus very low viewpoint diversity. But they have high sexual diversity, at nearly 40 percent LGBT.”
The Fix added that “the analyzed data also reveals that overall 23 percent of U.S. college students identify as LGBTQ—a number similar to a Gallup poll which found 20.8 percent of Generation Z identified as LGBT in February 2022. In contrast, the national average of Americans identifying as LGBT in the Gallup poll was 7.1 percent.”
So college students in general are three times more likely to say they’re homosexual than the rest of the population, which is over twice more likely to say it’s homosexual than it was in 2015. At Wellesley, 38% of students said they were homosexual in 2016, making for a 32% increase since then.
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mg says
Human behavior is contagious, and that should give caution as to what public opinion is when expressed by the herd, who’ve been bathed in the correct view to have- the ‘oppressed’ one that is favored most always. And I personally would like to see a protest march to insist that homosexuals give up the word ‘gay’, as it is an appropriation of language enslaving the word to a meaning others cannot share. The ‘gay’ ’90s weren’t about sexual preference. And feeling gay and or gaiety shouldn’t be limited to a small class of people who use it as a noun, depriving its original use as an adjective.
Come to think of it- I can’t imagine there ever being a heterosexual parade to announce that. Not because there shouldn’t one, at this point, after all this leftist destruction of sexual identity- it’s just that it’s supposed to be private- not a source of ‘parading’ but something personal. Something to be developed and measured; not by its ‘existence’, but by what it can accomplish
Scotsman48 says
MG: I asked a mature male Gay friend years ago as to why they used that label, Gay, as a grouping, he told me it was a signal, a code word to others, for instance if he sees some other guy and thinks maybe he is and maybe he isnt and so he would say to this fellow, ”Hello Im feeling rather Gay today” and if the other fellow answered, ” I am also” then they knew it was safe to hook up. Remember this was back in the 1950s and even long before that.
So it was a password into the Homosexual lifestyle which was a rather closed off scene.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Why wouldn’t they? When they are taught that being cisgender straight – especially if they are White – is evil, they’ll look for ways out of that. They can’t do anything about being White, other than claim, like Rick Caruso, that they’re something else. But being straight is something they can ‘unclaim’, and if they get a free surgery while being lied to about it being reversible, they can even go from cis to trans
Seriously, parents need to en masse pull their kids out of college and put them in certification programs or other special short term programs that actually land them a job. Only then will we get serious in cutting off the power to the social anarchists
James Lincoln says
Question: what percent of plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc., in their 20s, are LGBTQ?
nurseviki says
And in my neck of the woods in Texas-what percentage of hard working hispanic blue collar workers have fallen for this? Is this a phenomenon of the elite? Critical queer theory?
tgusa says
I have never felt the need to proclaim to everyone, hey, I’m heterosexual and proud of it! I’m just not that self absorbed. We are witnessing engineered societal collapse. Much of the rest of the world looks on and is learning a lesson of what to avoid and even prohibit. Where will they go when they bring down their own civilization? OK you’re gay now get a room and leave the rest of us alone.
joanofark06 says
Award goes to tgusa, for most sensible comment for this unnatural news report, that only Satan could enjoy reading. Luckily, we’re told his time is short, and I believe he’s having to move even faster, to collect as many souls as possible!
Joe1 says
In the 1970s the excuse was, “The devil made me do it.” Now, it is, “I was born this way.”
dazzleme says
For some reason they think it’s cool…..it’s NOT!
joanofark06 says
Award goes to tgusa, for most sensible comment for this unnatural news report, that only Satan could enjoy reading. Luckily, we’re told his time is short, and I believe he’s having to move even faster, to collect as many souls as possible!