LGBTQ+ Community || Acharya Prashant

Full video: LGBTQ: Why does the society despise them? || Acharya Prashant, at AIIMS Nagpur (2022)

Transcript

00:00Why is there such a huge reluctance to accept the LGBTQ community?

00:06You do not want to accept anybody who is not like you, full stop.

00:09It's not just about the LGBTQ community.

00:13Anybody doing anything that's a little out of the way,

00:17you don't want to accept it or endorse it.

00:20It's a threat to your own way of living.

00:23And you know that your way of living has not much substance in it.

00:28So anything that comes as a deviation becomes an object of suspicion.

00:34You're talking of the LGBTQ community.

00:36Would you be tolerant towards someone who refuses to be educated?

00:40Education is a part of your script, right?

00:43Somebody says, I don't want to be educated.

00:45How tolerant would you be?

00:46In fact, you would be more tolerant towards a lesbian or a gay

00:51than you would be towards a person who refuses the ordinary kind of education.