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You are here: Home / Civil Rights / Racial Justice / This Week In Blackness / Ben Carson Thinks Prison Can Turn You Gay

Ben Carson Thinks Prison Can Turn You Gay

by Elon James White|  March 9, 20151:12 pm| 4 Comments

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Oh, Ben Carson. Such a brilliant mind and accomplished neurosurgeon and you think homosexuality is a choice because some people get raped in prison? That’s some special deductive reasoning there.

Team Blackness also discussed NYC giving students off for Muslim holidays, how a glass of red wine is the equivalent of a workout, and how California’s 3-strike prison reform is working.

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  1. 1.

    ET

    March 9, 2015 at 2:58 pm

    For all his education the man is an idiot.

    To my understanding sex in prison is about hierarchy, power, and just getting off. Those men that are having sex with men (and who weren’t gay when they went in) will go right back to screwing women once they are out. Which means they weren’t gay they were just having sex with whoever was available and in a men’s prison it was other men.

  2. 2.

    greennotGreen

    March 9, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    What always amazes me about homophobes is that their confidence in their own sexuality seems to be seriously lacking. Years ago, circa The Road Warrior, a gay male friend and I, a straight woman, said that if circumstances were such that if we had both gotten burned out on men, if Mel Gibson* walked in the room, we’d be right back to guys. For most people, it’s just not that flexible a preference.

    Caveats apply. We did not know at that time that Gibson was a nutcase bigot, and for some people, it’s whichever way the wind blows.

  3. 3.

    Goblue72

    March 9, 2015 at 7:34 pm

    I like Dan Savage’s response – if being gay is a choice, then suck my dick.

  4. 4.

    MJ

    March 9, 2015 at 9:57 pm

    It is so sad to see what has become of this man who was a hero to most black kids when I was growing up. What is that saying, again? Oh yeah, never meet you heroes…

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