Posted on 05/12/2019 6:54:31 AM PDT by super7man
Maybe Jim and company would like to have the news concentrating on political/conservative activism topics and put the rest in slots designed to handle the “melange’ of news/interest topics that FReepers post....instead of heartburn, do the adult thing, put your interest items in one of the slots provided for them.
No, he's a butt pirate.
He deserves scorn and shunning.
Shunnage? Shunment?
Mayor Pete has dished it out. But you think he shouldn’t have any snarky gibes said against him in exasperation where he is not even seeing them, as opposed to freepers primly repeating all the reasons why his behavior and blasphemy are offensive to conservatives.
Get some perspective. No one on FR is throwing him off a building.
The lgbtq agenda insists that whole rest of the country has to cower in shame and risk having their lives ruined because a small percentage of men and women refuse to accept that they have a statistically minority condition requiring that they adjust within civilization, not shut down civilization. They’ve even outlawed therapy rather than face the painful reality of being different, instead turning into fascist tyrants.
Tell that to the brave men and women who will go through the rest of their lives without one or more vital parts of their bodies because they went into combat for this nation. Do they get to insist that the rest of society be similarly maimed, or have children taught that whole-bodied people are bigots and haters?
What if musicians must never play in harmony again, due to the small percentage of people who are tone deaf? Confiscate their instruments—harmony is Hitler!
Must restaurants serve only pureed food, to avoid hurting the feeings of babies and the elderly? Shut them down! Raw food and whole fibers are discriminatory!
Must schoolchildren must be taught that healthy bodies, harmony and whole foods are bigoted expressions of privilege—like heteronormativity?
To boil it down, Mayor Pete has little to recommend him as a candidate, other than identity politics, the worst reason ever to elect someone. So he is being “hooted offstage”, because the very idea that a pipsqueak mayor whose electoral differentiator is that he’s gay is inherently arrogant and offensive.
The nation is in serious trouble on every level. Most people are exhausted of minority demands for special treatment when they refuse to respect the long-established foundational principles of the rest of society, whom they expect to pave their way. They are the ones preventing unity, like toddlers throwing poo in the dairy aisle.
I could not agree with you more on the folly of identity politics. Competence is not even in the top 10 qualifications for office, behind race, gender, orientation, wrong religion, etc.
Calling crude names and hooting over icky practices is not throwing someone off a building. So glad you pointed that out. Pejorative behavior has degrees. Wow.
I don’t believe it’s equal, attacking his agenda and pointing out his speech or actions, versus mocking his possible sex practices. I don’t think ANYTHING he has said or done is properly answered by gay slurs.
My subject was specific.
It’s cheap and pathetic to only respond to Buttigieg threads with gay slurs. It isn’t kind, or considerate, or decent. It’s not even witty political humor.
You prove my point.
Butt. Pirate.
As earlier noted, most of the gay razzing here is shorthand for "this candidacy is a non-starter because (insert 2,000 words re how sexual immorality ruins nations HERE)".
People are fed up with how the universities, media, the establishment and the Deep State are forcing this upon us. Stupid humor is a coping device for traditional Americans who are being politically oppressed by in-your-face disrespect and silenced by fascist regulations such as the ones we are concerned Buttigieg would increasingly foist on us, for example that bill circulating in the House right now that would literally cancel the First Amendment in favor of gays never having their feelings hurt.
Seems like, for your own reasons, you are identifying with Pete and taking 50 shades of sarcasm personally. If a comment is truly disturbing, you can flag it. Otherwise, it's the same obnoxious verbal jousting over any and all personal characteristics we all were surrounded by in middle school—braces, zits, skinny, fat, gay, etc—yet survived.
...and wha kind of pirate are you, huh?? ;)
Your first sentence, I think you are exactly right.
But I don’t like the substitute of cogent argument or even witty humor with cheap homosexual jokes. I think it makes this place look idiotic.
I don’t identify with Buttigieg; I just cringe at middle school insults for his orientation. I disagree that there is anything noble or decent about it. I don’t think it’s an “identify with” thing, because I bet you don’t identify with the juvenile anal sex references you are defending, either, right?
I agree many of the remarks are tiresomely crude; the mods could pay more attention to threads about him. On the other hand, you could avoid them! Problem solved!
We probably agree more than we may seem, and I have always liked talking with you. Just this topic you seem to lean very far to the left. FWIW, I went to dance classes from early childhood thru young adulthood and also art education, worked in the arts for 40 years, hence was always surrounded by gays, had many friends go through the multiple losses of friends from AIDS, and have a great deal of sympathy for their existential situation in general. But as a society, we’re not handling their situation well.
I think I agree with everything you said.
If someone wants to call me far left, though, on the basis of me not being against homosexuality nor having any energy to fight gay marriage (a toothpaste having escaped issue for me), they can go ahead and call me that, but it wouldn’t be a good descriptor of me politically.
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