One of the many rebuttals to the accusation of "homophobia" that the Christian Right has traditionally used is "we hate the sin, but love the sinner." On its surface, this is true and valid. You can have all the homosexual feelings in the world (I myself used to struggle with them as a teenager) but as long as you don't act on them, it's not a sin. However, the usage of this phrase started to become counterproductive for several reasons.
First off, people who have homosexual urges but don't act on them are not homosexual. Many people act like they still are, but are just living in denial, or abstinence. The truth is, abstaining from not just sodomy but all forms of lust is usually a good way to become straight. That's how it worked with me- when I stopped watching porn so often, I quickly realized that I wasn't bisexual, I was just unsatisfied. Being gay is a curable condition, but even mentioning that is enough to get you banned in neocon circles.
Secondly, homophobia is not even real. The word was invented by a porn magazine called "Screw" to shame men into performing acts of sodomy on camera. I'm sure I don't need to inform you (((who))) exactly was behind this publication. The intent from the beginning was not only to portray normal people as hateful, but as mental patients. They intended for the word to be a diagnosis of mental illness. And if conservatives won't stand up and speak out that homosexuality is the real disease, (((they))) will get their wish.
And third, "hate the sin love the sinner" will never convince a liberal, because their morality is not based on actions. Their morality is based on identity. This is why there are no Honorary Marleyans and there are no Good Eldians. To them, non-Eldian identities are good and Eldian identities are bad. The act is merely an expression of identity. While this identity isn't pliable, your relationship with it as well as what place you have in society, is.
This is the morality expressed in the anime I recently finished watching called Psycho-Pass, which portrays a world in which the government has been sublimated by the "Sibyl system" a Big Brother-esque entity that keeps close tabs on the population at all times. However, unlike in 1984, the Sibyl system isn't searching for political dissenters (to a certain degree at least) it's searching for people whose psychological profile shows criminal tendencies. These people are labeled "latent criminals" and it's up to the show's protagonists, Akane Tsunemori and Shinya Kogami, to hunt them down if they refuse to submit themselves to therapy.
Kogami, a latent criminal who serves as an enforcer, essentially doing the police's dirty work, is still obsessed with a case three years ago that claimed the life of his best friend. When a killer with a similar MO appears, he learns that one man was sponsoring the perpetrators of both crimes- Shogo Makishima.
Spoilers begin here.
Makishima has evaded capture all this time because the Sibyl system has failed to judge him. Akane, equipped with a laser gun called a dominator, a weapon that will only unlock when aimed at a latent criminal, is unable to detain him because according to Sibyl, Makishima's mental state is perfectly stable. Even as he brutally murders one of Akane's friends, all she can do is watch helplessly, her dominator worth less than a nerf gun.
Makishima asks her the damning question, "what is crime?" To which Akane has no response, because in this society, crime effectively does not exist. The Sibyl system takes the logic of black nationalists demanding reparations and applies it to all of society:
"White people abused us in the past, so they need to redeem themselves now."
"People with this mental state typically committed crimes in the past, and therefore must be rehabilitated."
Leftists routinely commit sins that they rake Rightists over the coals for. Ralph Northam and Justin Trudeau wearing blackface. Antifa and BLM burning down buildings while the FBI is more worried about the Capitol Protest. White mass shooters are all Nazis, while black mass shootings are "gang violence." Trump was literally Hitler for putting kids in cages, while Biden is clearly doing it for their own good. To the Left, morality is based on your identity, not on your actions.
This is why conceding to the Left's morality is a deadly mistake. Calling them the "real racists" is a hopelessly futile endeavor, because they and the Marleyans they advocate for cannot by definition be racist. At no point in the anime does Makishima demand that Akane and her colleagues submit themselves to get therapy because "they're the real criminals." Makishima rejects their reality and states that any expression of human individuality is righteous.
Naturally we're not meant to root for him, and we shouldn't. The man's a murderer who almost poisons the entire country. But the man we are meant to root for is Kogami, who because of Makishima ultimately decides to flee the Sibyl system and become a renegade. He doesn't agree with Makishima's ultra-individualism, but he also sees no justice in judging people the way the Sibyl system does. To him, the law is meant to protect people, to serve as a code of what people should and should not do. Kogami and his colleagues, the other enforcers, have never strayed outside what most would consider a good legal code- one of the major revelations in the story is that Kogami and another enforcer named Masaoka were once detectives themselves, but became enforcers because they either got too invested in a case and learned to think like criminals (Kogami) or became too distraught by the Sibyl system, or both (Masaoka).
Another man, Kagari, was labeled a latent criminal at the age of five, permanently sealing his fate. One woman, Kunizuka, used to be an artist before she was sent to a rehabilitation facility for unknown reasons, where hardly anyone was ever released. According to Kogami, it's the same at every facility. And at the end of the first season, Akane's uptight by-the-book senior, Inspector Ginoza, follows in Kogami and Masaoka's footsteps and becomes an enforcer because of his experiences hunting down Makishima.
It's shown and implied over and over again, that this creates a social caste system in which those with control over their mental states can perform acts that others wouldn't and couldn't dream of. Since the Sibyl system has decided that free will isn't worth it, and that it deserves to be worshipped and revered as a god, the only way it can determine morality is through one's identity. And thanks to Makishima, this backfires spectacularly.
What's scary is that the Left has no such fatal flaw. They don't need a top-down authoritarian structure to dictate this morality, they can simply have the Marleyans enforce it for them, by driving it home through propaganda that Eldian = bad.
This is the reason why the Right must never cave to the Left's morality, and expose their corrupt system. If we are to convince the normies and the Good Eldians who can still be saved, we must drive home that, to the Left, it does not matter what they do, all that matters is who they are.
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