A quick note on the language we use to discuss bigots:

I have acrophobia. When I'm near a ledge ofr sheer drop, I physically cannot help but panic and become stressed.

There's no quick fix for an actual phobia. I could go to therapy I guess? But that's expensive and I'm poor.

Anti-gay bigots do not have a "phobia" of gay people. Their bigotry is a series of choices and conditioning from society

You can alternatively use terms like "homomisia" but not everyone does or even has to. All I'm asking is that you drop the -phobic suffix from bigots

It's inaccurate, it aligns bigotry with mental illness and things that can't easily be changed (when it's actually very easy to not be a bigot), and it overall adds to mental health stigmas through muddying the waters

Basically, at the end of the day, it costs nothing to drop the -phobic suffix from bigots and it helps steer the narrative of bigotry away from the further stigmatization of mental health

So please do your part in addressing your language, if you would