# How should the Pit be changed, if at all?

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**Created:** [July 19, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-the-pit-be-changed-if-at-all/946859 "2021-07-19T23:19:50Z")\
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> [@filmore](#):
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> Changing societal beliefs is hard and takes time. But pitting the OP as a racist with profanity laden personal insults is just going to drive that person away mentally and/or physically and they are unlikely to learn anything.

This was my thought when I read this:

> [@Kron](#):
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> I can’t think of any way way for being anti-SSM to be anything but homophobic. Sure sucks if you don’t like receiving that label, but it is what it is.
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> […snip…]
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> “Bathroom bills”, though? Straight-up bigotry; no different from having a whites-only bathroom/drinking fountain/what-have-you.

Why engage the other half of the population to understand why they believe the things they do when it’s so much easier to just dismiss them as bigots? Perhaps this explains why Kron can’t think of any reason, except homophobia, to be anti-SSM.

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