Homophobia

**Homophobia** is the dislike or prejudice against gay people. James does not often show outwardly homophobic behavior, but there are a few notable instances that had a sizeable impact on his life and reputation. For somebody who constantly touts his skepticism of God and the supernatural, one would think James is above participating in social stigma against gay people but he seems to dislike them anyway.

On a related note, James' opinion on transgender people seems to be a lot more neutral. He referred to transgender people getting sex-changing surgery as "fate", which is basically James' way of saying "it is what it is".

## The Incident

In June 2021 James made a now-deleted tweet that saying that if his hypothetical son or daughter came out as gay or lesbian to him, he would beat them to "make him back to normal". If this didn't work, he admitted it could be "fate" for them to be gay. This tweet did not bode well with his audience at all and many fans rightly criticized him for being an abusive father to even consider doing such a thing to his own child. Soon enough people began contacting Teespring, the same website that hosted and sold James' merchandise, in hopes of getting him de-platformed. Since being associated with homophobia is almost a death sentence to most American companies, they promptly deleted all of his t-shirts and banned him from the website on June 8th 2021.

Considering how selling t-shirts was the only way James made his income at the time, he was left in disarray. He believed he was being unfairly "blocked" from Teespring and would continue to sulk about it for the following week, at first trying to defend himself but then ultimately giving up and calling it fate. He even told his mother about it who got very upset at him.

## "I'm not gay"

James seems to love announcing several times that he is not gay while doing things often associated with being gay. It is not known if this is just some sort of lie he tells himself to repress his own sexuality or just his patented simple-minded honesty. Here are some examples of him not being gay:

* Trying on his mother's lipstick, not because he's gay, he's just curious
* Eating a banana, but not in a gay way, it's just a reward
* Kissing the protagonist from Witcher 3, but he isn't gay, he's just joking

## Today

Ever since the infamous tweet that led to his Teespring being shut down, James seems to have changed his perspective on the LGBT by a lot. He now states that he respects them, and typically posts a tweet every pride month celebrating it. Whether he actually had a change of heart or is trying to not provoke another controversy, at this point James' mind has been molded so much by internet fame that it would be hard to even tell the difference. All that can be certain is that James will never make a similar comment ever again.

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/JamesCageWhite/status/1402467992730963968
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/JamesCageWhite/status/1402954285818671109
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/JamesCageWhite/status/1403687187410046984
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/JamesCageWhite/status/1402506506302464000
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/JamesCageWhite/status/1403872785844162568
6. ↑ jameswhite on X: "I'm trying my mother's lipstick, I'm not gay,I just curious what's gonna be like after I get this https://t.co/Zf2CftFbWD" / X (twitter.com)
7. ↑ jameswhite on X: "Hi guys, I’m eating a banana as reward, very yummy very delicious I like it 😋I just like eating banana,I’m not gay ; I like woman https://t.co/KnlLxNQyZJ" / X (twitter.com)
8. ↑ jameswhite on X: "I'm kissing witcher, I'm not gay, just joking 😀 https://t.co/ogyzZxOZx7" / X (twitter.com)