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Why Democrats should not give a pass to Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia on homophobic slurs
Sacramento Bee ^ | May 09, 2018 | Rick Zbur

Posted on 05/09/2018 3:43:44 PM PDT by artichokegrower

A couple weeks ago, my 13-year-old daughter found a homophobic slur scribbled in her textbook. I wanted to tell her things will get better — that there's no place for language like that and that whoever wrote the word will understand someday.

But how can I tell her that when a state Assemblywoman has repeatedly used homophobic slurs to describe her colleagues? Worse, how do I tell her that Californians don't accept that type of behavior when that legislator’s party is willing to give her a pass?

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We've seen a rise in homophobic, misogynistic and racist rhetoric condoned by the Trump administration — hate speech that is unacceptable coming from anyone, let alone elected representatives.


What does Donald Trump have to do with the actions of a California legislator that resides some 3,000 miles from Washington DC? More importantly this columnist is using his position of white privilege to attack a Latina office holder. He also is attacking her culture which appears not to appreciate "homos". Embrace diversity.

1 posted on 05/09/2018 3:43:44 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower
A little background on Mx. Zbur:
Rick Zbur is a distinguished lawyer with a long history of advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and environmental causes. Zbur retired from Latham & Watkins, one of the world’s largest and most respected law firms, where he was a senior partner and practiced law for 29 years.

A lifelong LGBT trailblazer, Zbur was Latham & Watkins’ first openly gay attorney and first openly gay partner. He worked in all aspects of the firm’s environmental, land and resource practice, including leading the firm’s extensive work before the California Coastal Commission.

Zbur was cited one of Southern California’s top ten environmental attorneys by the Los Angeles Business Journal in its 2009 “Who’s Who in Law” feature. He was also cited as a leading environmental attorney by the Los Angeles Business Journal in 2008 and 2009.

He took a leave of absence from his firm in January 1996 to run for Congress in California’s 38th Congressional District, where he became the first openly gay, non-incumbent to win a contested primary for U.S. Congress. At the time, his campaign was one of the larger Congressional campaigns in the country with approximately 14 staff members and a budget of over $1 million. His experience running for office, combined with his years in practice as a senior partner at Latham & Watkins and his significant advocacy work have made Zbur well known in both Sacramento and Washington, D.C.

Zbur is Chair Emeritus of the board of the California League of Conservation Voters, the political action arm of California’s environment community, where he leads the organization and oversees its strategic direction. CLCV is a leading environmental organization that utilizes political strength to protect and improve the environmental quality of California. He formerly served on the board of Lambda Legal and was a founding director and vice president at the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation.

A proud co-parent to three children with their lesbian co-parents, Zbur grew up in a farming community in the Rio Grande Valley south of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where his mother, Erlinda Chavez Zbur and her family have lived for generations.

Zbur is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School.


2 posted on 05/09/2018 3:47:34 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: artichokegrower

The Dems have a coalition of the fringes. Their problem is that Hispanics don’t much like gay people. If they champion gays at the expense of Hispanics, some Hispanics will peel away and either not vote or vote GOP.


3 posted on 05/09/2018 3:47:36 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.)
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To: artichokegrower
my 13-year-old daughter found a homophobic slur scribbled in her textbook

Dollars to donuts, the kid wrote it herself.

4 posted on 05/09/2018 3:47:59 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: artichokegrower
Was the homophobic slur "fag?" "Queer"? "Butt plugger"? "Bone smuggler"? "Gash lapper"? "Dyke"? "Poof"? "Fairy"?

Your poor snowflake daughter. How horrible for her. Make sure you don't show her this thread. It would probably throw her into catatonia.

5 posted on 05/09/2018 3:54:05 PM PDT by IronJack (A)
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To: artichokegrower

Time was Lenny Bruce was arrested in bars for saying things like ‘c@clsucker’. Now teachers and ‘guides’ teach 13 year olds about it and encourage homosexual experimentation


6 posted on 05/09/2018 3:56:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: artichokegrower

Sticks and stones..

STICKS AND STONES, you blithering idiot!!

Just WHAT kind of helpless, hopeless creature are you trying to raise?????


7 posted on 05/09/2018 4:06:03 PM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: IronJack

You left out poofter, back door bandit, bull dyke, woopsie, Sodomite and Gaystapo.


8 posted on 05/09/2018 4:09:55 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Zhang Fei
Neither do their precious Muslims like sodomites (to say the least-at least, not when it’s not the Muslim men themselves practicing “boy love”). Muslims throw them off tall buildings, once they have the power to do such things. The left is trying to give them the power in the West, and I don’t think it can even be called “unintended consequences” this time, as Muslims committing these acts are already well-known. Which tells me, that the left is 1)reactionary to everything which conservatism stands for, and 2) the left is just inherently evil, as they will even embrace evils they themselves have in the past proclaimed to abhor, just because those evils come from a likely left-voting bloc.

It’s the same hypocrisy (hypocrisy should be their motto, as they have no shame for it) which will allow them to actually celebrate the horrendous murder of innocent life in the womb, while opposing the just execution, after a swift but fair trial, of the most monstrous murderers. The hypocrisy which will purport to uphold the working class, while clamoring to bring in those who take their jobs. And, the hypocrisy which again allows them to support inner-city criminals murdering children, the elderly, and other civilians, while calling for the heads of the LE who are the only ones who try, however imperfectly, to protect and defend the innocent, by taking the murderers off the streets by any legal means necessary. The elites of the left must believe that somehow they’re going to be immune from the world they themselves are creating. How surprised and fearful they will be to learn that, au contraire, they will be its first and easiest victims.

9 posted on 05/09/2018 4:10:44 PM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: IronJack
Was the homophobic slur "fag?" "Queer"? "Butt plugger"? "Bone smuggler"? "Gash lapper"? "Dyke"? "Poof"? "Fairy"?

Perhaps it was "Sausage Smoker"? "Ankle Grabber"? "Pillow Biter"? "Trombone Player"? "Carpet Muncher"? "Turd Burgler"? "Poo Poker"? "Being British"? "Butt Pirate"? "Rump Ranger"?

C'mon! Inquiring minds want to know...
10 posted on 05/09/2018 4:13:17 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: akalinin
You forgot one:

BTW: the offending word was.............. Homo

11 posted on 05/09/2018 4:48:46 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (California: drive illegally, you lose your license, here illegally, they give you one.)
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To: Michael.SF.

I swear I saw that ‘acme fudge packer’ meme in the late 90’s as the internet really started to take off. Never gets old, though!


12 posted on 05/09/2018 4:56:33 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: Michael.SF.

Bugger!


13 posted on 05/09/2018 5:32:35 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is a Malignant Moral Cancer on Society!)
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To: mrsmel
It’s the same hypocrisy (hypocrisy should be their motto, as they have no shame for it) ...

Honestly, I don't think they recognize it in themselves as they are completely deluded. Perhaps I'm offering excuses.

14 posted on 05/09/2018 5:36:34 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: artichokegrower

A Democrat Latina bashes gays, and that’s Trump’s fault somehow? That’s quite a reach.


15 posted on 05/09/2018 6:06:49 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: artichokegrower
If needed, of course they should give her a pass. It's what democrats do.

16 posted on 05/09/2018 6:10:25 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: google,TWITTER,FACEBOOK,WaPo,Hollywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: Rurudyne

Don’t forget turd burglar, fudge packer, and butt pirate.


17 posted on 05/09/2018 9:39:24 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: Steely Tom

“Rick Zbur is a distinguished lawyer with a long history of advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and environmental causes.”

In other words, a sodomite fudge packer.


18 posted on 05/09/2018 9:44:59 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: All

Attention Demons: PLEASE giver her, Joy Reid and others like them a pass so we can continue to show the world that your race/homophobe card is a complete farce.


19 posted on 05/10/2018 4:35:28 AM PDT by Maverick68
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