Discussion about an ad referencing a politician's private life and whether that is homophobic. Posts disagree: one argues “Highlighting the hypocrisy of closeted Republicans is not the same as homophobia,” while others respond “Maybe stop telling us that it's not homophobic” and warn that “misgendering someone ... gives people permission to misgender everyone.”
Created 6 days ago • 28 documents • Range: 3/26 8:49am – 3/26 2:20pmMaybe stop telling us that it's not homophobic when we can see that it certainly is. She can do better. I was rooting for her. This ad is ok. BTW, misgendering someone - even an asshole - gives people permission to misgender everyone. Maybe it won't effect him, but it will affect others.
Gay liberal doc checking in. I sincerely hope you unseat him and retract this ad and say something about how it was a lame, misguided attempt to be subversive. You’re a pediatrician. A closeted pre-teen in your district could very easily not understand why you’re attempting to do here and
Or, (from Cider House Rules), “what is you business?” In her case, cosplay figures prominently, along with fucking anybody who dangles …… www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...
The ad isn't attacking his hypocrisy lol. It's not like she is contrasting his voting record on gay rights with his private life, it's just making references to the latter in a context (war-mongering) where it shouldn't be salient.
""Lifelong advocate for human rights (*for EVERYONE)" with 74,000 followers thinks making homophobic jokes is "brilliant.""
And then people wonder why Dems keep losing. With friends like these...
Really? Think what you want about the homophobic dog whistle, but it doesn't even fit the framing here. It's shoehorned in for no reason. The "twist" of "the secret is actually him being a warmonger" doesn't work because that's never been a secret, as the various media clips shown demonstrate