Funnily enough, just before I saw this, I saw somebody on Twitter arguing that because they'd never met anybody who thought same-sex attraction was transphobic, nobody was saying that. People make global judgements based on their small pools of friends and acquaintances all the time.
Sorry Steve but the “percentage of the world’s population” argument makes absolutely zero sense here.
Funnily enough, just before I saw this, I saw somebody on Twitter arguing that because they'd never met anybody who thought same-sex attraction was transphobic, nobody was saying that. People make global judgements based on their small pools of friends and acquaintances all the time.
But the views of a huge variety of other cultures? Do we need to average them in to accurately read the pulse of our own?
In Uganda being gay is a death sentence. Do I need to have the acquaintance of hundreds of Ugandans if I live in San Francisco?
And a few dozen people is a far cry from 80,000..
It isn’t possible to know any significant fraction of eight billion people.