Posted on 02/11/2019 6:14:36 AM PST by csvset
Some local officials are calling for Bronx City Councilman Ruben Diaz Senior to resign over seemingly homophobic comments.
On the Spanish-speaking radio show "The Relief," Diaz said the City Council is "controlled by the homosexual community."
Although he did not specify who he was referring to, the current City Council speaker is Corey Johnson, who is openly gay and HIV-positive.
Mayor de Blasio took to Twitter, demanding that Diaz apologize. Now, a group of councilmembers is calling for further action.
The City Council LGBT Caucus and Women's Caucus issued a joint statement saying, in part, "We demand he resign from his position effective immediately. It is time that we stick by the pledge we have made to our communities that hate and fear have no place in New York City."
The groups are also asking that the city council standards and ethics committee open an investigation into the matter.
Diaz responded to the controversy on Twitter, saying, "Whats homophobic about saying that the gay community controls the NYC City Council? Im giving them credit for the power and influence they have."
Corey Johnson has also issued a statement on Twitter saying, In the aftermath of Council Member Diaz Sr.'s deeply offensive comments about the LGBTQ community - as well as his indefensible refusal to apologize or even acknowledge the hurt he has caused - many Members have called for disciplinary actions against him and/or his resignation. I feel their anger and their pain. We are currently reviewing all potential disciplinary scenarios. Nothing is off the table
Puerto Rican cowboys in NYC?
Nothing is off the table as far as punishment? Careful hombre the fags will ask for the death penalty.
The definition of a gaffe!
So gay trumps Hispanic..Ok it’s hard to track this.
AT some point (soon?) all of the US will realize that the Dhimmicrats have done this to themselves.
By consistently pandering to special interest groups and then compartmentalizing them into trusted voting blocks, they never assessed the risk of one of those groups using Alinsky tactics against THEM; “make the target live up to its own values.”
The dhimmicrats can’t stop what is coming.
Do they run the city council or don't they? If they do run it, then he was just stating a fact, not attacking them.
Now if he had said that the NYC city council was run by Republicans, I could see what they'd be upset about. /s/
“...hate and fear have no place in New York City.”
Unless you say something that upsets the wrong people. Then they will hate on you and you should be afraid...be very afraid.
Irony is heavy. Could theoretically be any group if “community”.
Statement: City Council is controlled by the ABC community.
Response: ABC community forces him out, thus proving his statement.
“You said the council was controlled by the gay interests? The gay interests find that horribly offensive. Apologize now or the council will destroy you.”
Yes, you have to keep up with things. Hispanic trumps black, gay trumps Hispanic, and illegal trumps them all.
It is not easy to keep up with these rules. I just say this is the chaotic situation resulting from their joining forces with the enemy- the father of lies starting from accepting birth control as a way of life.
When that stops all this will be viewed as crazier than the acceptance of slavery. Which it is.
Good for him! Its way past time to stand up to the perverts.
We need a list of words that immediately identify the originator as mentally challenged in that they do not know how to argue and substitute logic with lies.
Among them are “phobic, intersectionality, cis (or other words depicting gender as anything other than M or F). A complete list of liberal verbal idiocies would require far more space than would be polite.
A good place to start would be to refer to any university lib arts Department of Mindless Idiocies and extract from the course descriptions.
Cowbro
The reason the Council cant let this stand.
It is much harder to claim victim status when the perception is that you are calling the shots.
"Whats homophobic about saying that the gay community controls the NYC City Council? Im giving them credit for the power and influence they have."
His original comment wasnt what I would consider homophobic. The LBXYZs response to Diazs benign comment is hydrophobic, as in rabid.
I think he should revise his statement to say the Democratic Party is controlled by the homosexual army.
Being upset and angry is how these people go through daily life.
Must be a miserable existence.
Remind me to not switch parties and decide to become gay.
Life's tough enough without being a miserable, discontented, offended gay city councilman in NYC. :-)
Muslimbs at the top.
Remember the parade when folks were taunting marching LBGQTDBXYZer’s and the media were condemning the taunters; then, the parade turned the corner and a group of Muslimbs started attacking, and the media shuts up?
Absolutely nothing trumps Muslimbs. The Gold Standard.
The man knows his town. Unfortunately this is not an age where honesty is rewarded if it disagrees with the political correctness of the day.
(Some day the “gay’s” will find the Left-controlled culture of political correctness will turn on them, when they are no longer a tool to be used by the Left for it’s agendas.)
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