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The president of the Philippines has called the United States ambassador to the country a gay son of a bitch that pissed him off.
Reportedly intending the remark as an insult, Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at Ambassador Phillip Goldberg in an address to his nations troops.
International Business Times reports:
He also added, according to Yonhap news agency: That son of a bitch really annoyed me.
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riversedge
(70,239 posts).............As IB Times noted before, the remark that Duterte made to set off the war of words between him and Goldberg was about the rape of an Australian missionary. Said Duterte of the rape:
What a pity. What came to my mind was, They raped her, lined up for her. I was mad because she was raped? Yes. Thats one reason. But she was so beautiful. The mayor should have been first.
Duterte was the mayor of the city where the woman was raped.
Goldberg condemned those remarks at the time, saying, I can only agree with the colleague from the Australian Embassy. Any statements by anyone, anywhere that either degrade women or trivialize issues so serious as rape or murder, are not ones that we condone.
Goldbergs response incensed Duterte, who said Goldberg should not interfere with our national election.
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Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)He has never publically identified as gay, so this seems to be another "fag" smear, because as we all know it is OK to call people "gay" to indicate they are 'weak" or call gay civil rights "boutique issues", so this shouldn't be a big surprise that heterosexual privilege exerts itself again from a misogynistic POS.
BTW, Duterte's "joke" about the murdered Australian missionary Jacqueline Hamill made while he was mayor of that city:
The "joke" that Duterte was criticized for making came in April. At the time of the attack on Hamill, Duterte was mayor of Davao City, where the crime took place. "What a pity," he said. "What came to my mind was, They raped her, lined up for her. I was mad because she was raped? Yes. Thats one reason. But she was so beautiful. The mayor should have been first." source
I would say he is a pig, but I actually like pigs and they are very intelligent animals, so I will not insult them.