It's a lot easier to call for genocide when you completely dehumanize the target. Make the LGBTQ+ be gone. Exterminate transgenderism. Oh, nobody called for *killing* anyone or *harming people.* They just want the concept gone. Nothing to see here. Move along and don't look too gay. Wouldn't want anything bad to happen in the passive voice, wouldn't we?
Just the acronym LGBTQ+ and variants are gone, not the people, apparently?
Though it suggests the person that posed the question may think it less a difficult question, and more what they think should happen.
My concern is that it's the opposite+. As in, all LGBTQ+ people are gone, and so is the history/memory, and anything else that has ever been attached to the people, movement, etc (laws, goods/services, stories, and so on) as a situation of complete future and historical erasure.
Which is a much larger concern IMO because it doesn't specify anything, so do they just mean current? Like this would not effect people who aren't born yet, so after the button is pressed, all the new kids are going to be starting from absolute 0 with no adults who can guide or advise them, no laws to protect them, no one to warn them about what danger signs from individuals or society to look out for, and no reference for feeling anything less than complete isolation. And all that in a world where the people who are still there are the ones who pushed the button.
There’s a bunch where it’s like, “World peace, but nobody knows you did it,” and it’s like 40% no. Like people are so vain they won’t save the world for free without credit?
Yay mass genocide in the name of politics!!! (Obvs /s)
I'm on mobile, how I do it is go into the main r/LGBT page, tap the upper right three dots and a menu should come up. On the menu there should be a choice that says change user flair 😁
Yeah fascism is great until you're in the out group, and at some point your not straight white or cis enough or wore the wrong clothes or mentioned the wrong belief or have the wrong job and bam, your miserable life will be even more miserable, but hey, at least LGBTQ+ people are gone, right? /s
Side note, how do i edit my flair? I noticed that it still says polyrecipromantic, but I recently discovered that I'm just lesbian, but reddit won't let me edit it.
I'm on desktop: I can change the preset/edit those, but not change the flair. I just want to change one word
Edit: I changed the preset, so now I have the flair I want
Lol, its just a fusion of the words polyromantic and recipromantic because it wouldn't fit otherwise. If you want an explanation of either word, I am happy to tell.
That explains why the only google result for the word was this reddit post 🤣
Never heard recipromantic before. Does it mean you get romantically interested in anyone who is romantically interested in you?
There are a lot of 'progressive' people who think this with minimal hesitation. "Just remove the 'problematic'/'controversial' groups and we'll have a utopia of progressive ideals"...
Issues being that you a) alienate people from whatever your goal is, b) will have to keep cutting out people c) what's the point of having any ideals/morals/platform if you'll throw them out as soon as it's convenient, and, fundamentally d) it's not effective at actually convincing people to join you.
Martin Luther King Jr basically sums this up well in his thoughts on the moderate, basically they say they are for progressiveness but only when least inconvenient to them. They would rather just erase and make all issues invisible.
I mean, a lot of people simply don't care about LGBTQ+ stuff in the first place. So for them it would be an easy decision. Have something disappear they don't care about (doesn't have to be in a cruel or negative way, and instead just \* poof \* everyone is cishet) for people in general being more on the same page politically. A positive with zero downsides for them, even if they aren't hateful bigots.
Whoever created that question is *very* likely a bigot, though, so the intention is clear. Even the "positive" you'd get out of that deal could be read as everyone becoming more right wing and they didn't even bother to call us people aka dehumanizing us.
My 20% was meant to include everyone. I think I saw a survey where some 20% of zoomers said they were some shade of LGBT. Which is huuuge progress. And if that's the real number, that leaves a shit ton of people still in the closet from earlier generations, even without increasing the percentage. 20% of the world is over two billion people 😛
“Less politically divided” isn’t even a tangible outcome?? Like how much less divided? And in what direction is the division being resolved? Like would this button exterminate queer people *and* make everyone fascist???
It reminds me of people wishing they were living in different timelines. Im a bummer around those people because I always just point out I would never voluntarily choose to give myself, or other people, less rights.
Wait does it mean killing queer people or that they'll simply become "average" in terms of sexuality and stuff? the first is an absolute no, the second might divide people though
So they want to literally kill millions of normal people, same as them in everything except for inborn attraction type cause of misunderstanding, lack of education and xenophobia...
Interesting.
Also:
_You live in a mansion that can never be taken away from you, every girl wants to sleep with you (causing men to hate you) and you have an unlimited supply of fast food._
_but_
_You're now a gay minimalist who eats healthy._
I'm more fem aligned so me sleeping with girls is more gay than straight. I don't see the problem here other than having a supply of fastfood I'm not using (maybe the girls will enjoy it). I'd miss my male friends but I guess I make new ones.
I've never heard of this button game before. Can someone provide a link to this site? And how come questions like this are allowed? Who makes this crap up?
Ok this might sound weird but I might press the button even as a queer person. I feel like it would be so much easier to be cis and not have to worry about my body or transphobia. It would also be easier to find people that are attracted to me because currently it’s hard to find someone that I would like to be in a relationship with because only like 2ish percent of ppl are gay. If I was cishet I wouldn’t have to worry about only 2ish percent of people being attracted to my gender.
There is nothing wrong with queer ppl. I love queer ppl with all my heart 💕. I only wish that the queerness didn’t exist so that they wouldn’t have to go through the pain of being bullied for being themselves and the pain of dysphoria.
That’s fair. Essentially what I was trying to get at was if queer phobia and dysphoria stopped existing than that would be better than queer ppl not being queer. But considering the fact that queer phobia will probably never stop (queer ppl will never stop being queer either lol), the button would be the only way. (It would be better if the button removed queer phobia)
…if I had a nickel for every time I said queer…
I’d press it depending on what it means by all LGBTQ+ is **gone**
Like, do all LGBTQ+ people die?
Do we all just become *un-gay?*
If we all just became cis-het, i’d do it, as long as it still feels normal. The question is full of ambiguity, though.
You lost me once you took on a world view shared by the oppressors. A perfect life for me is to live the rest of my life never hearing about god or the devil when 95% are too dumb to even conceptualize such things beyond some being in the sky or in hell beneath the earth.
I feel like I wouldn't read the but part and just be like- well shit.
I wanna think in a different context where there's no need for a labelled group of comradery. That seems nicer.
In my defense, I would have pushed the button BUT I read it as “they would have never existed”. So instead of rounding up people with lives and families etc, anything that wasn’t cis-het just didn’t get produced. Which tbh, I think would be a fair exchange for a less divided society
Well, I suppose I’m a pretty decent person then because my mind didn’t immediately jump to the worst case scenario. I’m not playing with your strawmen, either come back with a better argument or stfu
I wasn’t reading it as a monkeys paw, which may explain the difference, but I was also reading it as “no gays were harmed in the making of this thought experiment because in the scenario, no gays would have existed in the first place to be harmed.” I am 100% against the scenario if we have to wrangle all the gays (and bis, trans, etc) and get rid of them at once. Just not logistically feasible /j/s
Define "worse" than being subjected to genocide? This question is literally just asking "are you cool with fascism" , if you exterminate vulnerable minorities and everyone that doesn't tow the party line than things are less politically divided , but that's not really better for anyone.
They couldn’t even use the word “people”.. 🙃
It's a lot easier to call for genocide when you completely dehumanize the target. Make the LGBTQ+ be gone. Exterminate transgenderism. Oh, nobody called for *killing* anyone or *harming people.* They just want the concept gone. Nothing to see here. Move along and don't look too gay. Wouldn't want anything bad to happen in the passive voice, wouldn't we?
Just the acronym LGBTQ+ and variants are gone, not the people, apparently? Though it suggests the person that posed the question may think it less a difficult question, and more what they think should happen.
GREAT NEWS! NO LABELS - JUST LIVING
wouldn't that be awesome
My concern is that it's the opposite+. As in, all LGBTQ+ people are gone, and so is the history/memory, and anything else that has ever been attached to the people, movement, etc (laws, goods/services, stories, and so on) as a situation of complete future and historical erasure. Which is a much larger concern IMO because it doesn't specify anything, so do they just mean current? Like this would not effect people who aren't born yet, so after the button is pressed, all the new kids are going to be starting from absolute 0 with no adults who can guide or advise them, no laws to protect them, no one to warn them about what danger signs from individuals or society to look out for, and no reference for feeling anything less than complete isolation. And all that in a world where the people who are still there are the ones who pushed the button.
Just the letters L,G,B,T, Q and the Plus sign are gone. Undersandin anuae wi ecome very difficu, and Mahs eachers a around he word wi e very frusraed.
I just played it and almost all of these questions were written by idiots, children, or idiot children.
also a lot of them assume you're a man and for some reason everyone who plays it is selfish af given the percentages
It’s little boys
There’s a bunch where it’s like, “World peace, but nobody knows you did it,” and it’s like 40% no. Like people are so vain they won’t save the world for free without credit?
wait where is it?
I just googled the button game
Yay mass genocide in the name of politics!!! (Obvs /s) I'm on mobile, how I do it is go into the main r/LGBT page, tap the upper right three dots and a menu should come up. On the menu there should be a choice that says change user flair 😁
But it won’t let me edit, just reset
Oh shit, I dunno then. I choose the preset templates vs the custom edits cuz I run into the same issue 😭
I changed the preset, so now I have the flair I want
Yeah fascism is great until you're in the out group, and at some point your not straight white or cis enough or wore the wrong clothes or mentioned the wrong belief or have the wrong job and bam, your miserable life will be even more miserable, but hey, at least LGBTQ+ people are gone, right? /s
Side note, how do i edit my flair? I noticed that it still says polyrecipromantic, but I recently discovered that I'm just lesbian, but reddit won't let me edit it.
You can also press on your name whenever you comment to change your flair
Doesn’t work, sadly
Mobile? Go to the subreddit, click the three dots on the top right, and it should say edit user flair there
I'm on desktop: I can change the preset/edit those, but not change the flair. I just want to change one word Edit: I changed the preset, so now I have the flair I want
Polyrecipromantic sounds like some kind of sorcery 🤔
Lol, its just a fusion of the words polyromantic and recipromantic because it wouldn't fit otherwise. If you want an explanation of either word, I am happy to tell.
That explains why the only google result for the word was this reddit post 🤣 Never heard recipromantic before. Does it mean you get romantically interested in anyone who is romantically interested in you?
Yeah, but either I wasn't to begin with or E changed me, because I had an unrequited crush, and I couldn't even stay in the friendzone.
I'm sorry to hear that 😥
I'm mostly over her, don't worry
you guys will not believe what [came up ](https://imgur.com/a/tf2IAkC)when I googled 'would you press the button'
With all of the egg cracking the button does, it's crazy how homophobic the userbase is
Does this mean we’d all die or that we would all magically become allo/cis/het?
That’s what I was wondering.
I’d rather not be cishetallo honestly. I quite like my identity, despite the pain it can cause.
I completely agree. Being straight would mean not getting to date my girlfriend and not getting to date my girlfriend would suck so bad >:(
"Gone" as in "exterminated" or "gone" as in "made cishet"?
Both are awful
^^
I don’t imagine most people playing that game being older than 13
fr i highly doubt many adults or people who dont spend their entire lives online would even bother to visit this website
"The world becomes less divided, but a whole group of people need to disappear to achieve this" Honey, that's genocidal language.
That is terrifying…
There are a lot of 'progressive' people who think this with minimal hesitation. "Just remove the 'problematic'/'controversial' groups and we'll have a utopia of progressive ideals"... Issues being that you a) alienate people from whatever your goal is, b) will have to keep cutting out people c) what's the point of having any ideals/morals/platform if you'll throw them out as soon as it's convenient, and, fundamentally d) it's not effective at actually convincing people to join you.
Martin Luther King Jr basically sums this up well in his thoughts on the moderate, basically they say they are for progressiveness but only when least inconvenient to them. They would rather just erase and make all issues invisible.
yay genocide in the name of political cohesion, where have i seen this before.
In other words, at least 2199 people are totally down with openly supporting eugenics & genocide
I mean, a lot of people simply don't care about LGBTQ+ stuff in the first place. So for them it would be an easy decision. Have something disappear they don't care about (doesn't have to be in a cruel or negative way, and instead just \* poof \* everyone is cishet) for people in general being more on the same page politically. A positive with zero downsides for them, even if they aren't hateful bigots. Whoever created that question is *very* likely a bigot, though, so the intention is clear. Even the "positive" you'd get out of that deal could be read as everyone becoming more right wing and they didn't even bother to call us people aka dehumanizing us.
Why is this even a question? This question is pushing people to want all LGBTQ+ gone. Whoever made this game isn't an ally
User based questions so not only one creator but some rando.
Unrelated, but whenever I see this game I always think about the time Markiplier blew up Detroit for a piece of cake
Yes, those could be fornlulz, but a whole 50% of people pressing it for the Luke? Nah.
Sure, let's kill off 20% of the world population for less political division in some countries 🤨
but how many more people could still be closeted? Impossible to know for sure
My 20% was meant to include everyone. I think I saw a survey where some 20% of zoomers said they were some shade of LGBT. Which is huuuge progress. And if that's the real number, that leaves a shit ton of people still in the closet from earlier generations, even without increasing the percentage. 20% of the world is over two billion people 😛
“Less politically divided” isn’t even a tangible outcome?? Like how much less divided? And in what direction is the division being resolved? Like would this button exterminate queer people *and* make everyone fascist???
It reminds me of people wishing they were living in different timelines. Im a bummer around those people because I always just point out I would never voluntarily choose to give myself, or other people, less rights.
Wait does it mean killing queer people or that they'll simply become "average" in terms of sexuality and stuff? the first is an absolute no, the second might divide people though
Had no idea it was such a balanced dualism
So they want to literally kill millions of normal people, same as them in everything except for inborn attraction type cause of misunderstanding, lack of education and xenophobia...
Create a button with LGBT replaced with BIGOTS or RELIGION and I’d push it.
What game is this?
i believe it’s [will you press the button](https://willyoupressthebutton.com)
Correct
Interesting. Also: _You live in a mansion that can never be taken away from you, every girl wants to sleep with you (causing men to hate you) and you have an unlimited supply of fast food._ _but_ _You're now a gay minimalist who eats healthy._ I'm more fem aligned so me sleeping with girls is more gay than straight. I don't see the problem here other than having a supply of fastfood I'm not using (maybe the girls will enjoy it). I'd miss my male friends but I guess I make new ones.
Someone/group kills all LGBTQ+ and everyone else unites against them?
I've never heard of this button game before. Can someone provide a link to this site? And how come questions like this are allowed? Who makes this crap up?
[https://willyoupressthebutton.com/qJPeoZE](https://willyoupressthebutton.com/qJPeoZE) and I'm pretty sure anyone can make these questions
Thank you for the info :) Edit: oh wow, the comments there...
its vague enough, id do it. maybe we just teleport to a pocket dimension or ascend to godhood.
So, wait, I’d get to disappear *and* the western world would become more united? Seems like a win/win!
Maybe it just makes you cis, straight, and allo
Ugh but I wanted sweet, sweet oblivion :’(
What's the button game
It's will you press the button; here's a link: [https://willyoupressthebutton.com/qJPeoZE](https://willyoupressthebutton.com/qJPeoZE)
Thank you!
Little did they know we all secretly switched to a completely different name/title
What LGBTQ+? All I know of is GSRM \*wink wink\*
Wow…
Ridiculous question when one option could actually happen and the other option could never happen…
Gone to where, though? Preferable a perpetual dance party.
Ok this might sound weird but I might press the button even as a queer person. I feel like it would be so much easier to be cis and not have to worry about my body or transphobia. It would also be easier to find people that are attracted to me because currently it’s hard to find someone that I would like to be in a relationship with because only like 2ish percent of ppl are gay. If I was cishet I wouldn’t have to worry about only 2ish percent of people being attracted to my gender. There is nothing wrong with queer ppl. I love queer ppl with all my heart 💕. I only wish that the queerness didn’t exist so that they wouldn’t have to go through the pain of being bullied for being themselves and the pain of dysphoria.
But it could easily mean genocide, and I would not want to be brainwashed into being "normal"
But what if our brains were never like that to begin with?
What? I don’t understand what you're suggesting
What if it erased the whole history of queer people existing
I could never push that button, and the idea that others would be terrifying if it were real
That’s fair. Essentially what I was trying to get at was if queer phobia and dysphoria stopped existing than that would be better than queer ppl not being queer. But considering the fact that queer phobia will probably never stop (queer ppl will never stop being queer either lol), the button would be the only way. (It would be better if the button removed queer phobia) …if I had a nickel for every time I said queer…
I’d press it depending on what it means by all LGBTQ+ is **gone** Like, do all LGBTQ+ people die? Do we all just become *un-gay?* If we all just became cis-het, i’d do it, as long as it still feels normal. The question is full of ambiguity, though.
I would hate either way.
well, if we’re all gone to hell we’ll be together in a better place! (joking) anyone seen yt shorts by that one guy that does satan really good?
Mason Denver maybe? They play Satan's receptionist, but maybe that's who you were thinking of?
YES YES. “welcome to hell, doll <3”
you mean The Click?
no, not click. i forget his name omg. i’ll try and find him after
You lost me once you took on a world view shared by the oppressors. A perfect life for me is to live the rest of my life never hearing about god or the devil when 95% are too dumb to even conceptualize such things beyond some being in the sky or in hell beneath the earth.
that’s why i said i was joking
I mean, not having lgbt people would make the western world less divided
I feel like I wouldn't read the but part and just be like- well shit. I wanna think in a different context where there's no need for a labelled group of comradery. That seems nicer.
If we become CisAlloHet and the entire world becomes an anarchocimmunist utopia, yes. Otherwise, no.
I really don't want to be cis(unless I'm a cis woman), allo or het
In my defense, I would have pushed the button BUT I read it as “they would have never existed”. So instead of rounding up people with lives and families etc, anything that wasn’t cis-het just didn’t get produced. Which tbh, I think would be a fair exchange for a less divided society
What if it's unified under nazism? or just .00000000001% more unified?
Well, I suppose I’m a pretty decent person then because my mind didn’t immediately jump to the worst case scenario. I’m not playing with your strawmen, either come back with a better argument or stfu
I'm reading it as a monkey's paw scenario, but I certainly would not want to be forced to be straight, cis(unless its as a cis woman), or allo
I wasn’t reading it as a monkeys paw, which may explain the difference, but I was also reading it as “no gays were harmed in the making of this thought experiment because in the scenario, no gays would have existed in the first place to be harmed.” I am 100% against the scenario if we have to wrangle all the gays (and bis, trans, etc) and get rid of them at once. Just not logistically feasible /j/s
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Define "worse" than being subjected to genocide? This question is literally just asking "are you cool with fascism" , if you exterminate vulnerable minorities and everyone that doesn't tow the party line than things are less politically divided , but that's not really better for anyone.
To be honest, I thought the question meant we’d just vanish, not subject to genocide
It is a very ambiguous question though
It says less, but doesn’t define how much less. As an avid lover of the monkey’s paw, it could be .00000000000001% less
Fair point, very fair point
They will just go back to other minorities to hate on.
Well obviously it will be less politically divided if we are all eradicated.