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In reply to the discussion: You know, I've been on DU for sixteen years... [View all]wonkwest
(463 posts)I'm an LGBT individual. If, in 2006, you were using the "gay men go after minors" bit as part of your thought process, you were very much out of the liberal mainstream. This was, after all, post-FMA. The LGBT community was very much prominent and fighting for our lives.
She should've known way better.
And these "Well, it was ok to say it back then." No, it was not. Miss Charlie? Yeah, that stuff was around back then. Hell, it's around now with "Miss Lindsey." But gay men are predators after teenaged boys?
Newp. That was not at all ok back then. It's appalling to watch people excuse or diminish it, and I'm wondering who these friends of her's are who let her get away with it.
I'm finding all these threads nauseating. I'm new to posting (I've lurked for ages), but I just couldn't keep quiet watching my community get diminished and papered over like this in defense of a minor cable news host. What an embarrassment. It's 2018 for cripes sake.