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pintobean

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3. I thought about posting this last week.

Reply to TipTok (Original post)

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 07:55 AM

Jun 2016

I figured it would just drop like a rock, and possibly get hidden. Some things DU just doesn't want to know about.

I found it just jaw dropping. Orlando shook many in the LGBT community to the core. I think she went beyond being insensitive and selfish, and was intentionally hurtful.

But hey, it's Mizzou, watcha gonna do?

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Future of America - Hijacking of Orlando Vigil [View all] TipTok Jun 2016 OP

I've lost a lot of respect for the BLM movement. Exilednight Jun 2016 #1

Yep. Started out decent and now has turned into our own version of Westboro protesters. modem77 Jun 2016 #2

Comparing BLM to Westboro protestors is just plain wrong (to put it mildly). n/t demmiblue Jun 2016 #5

How could it be seen as anything but racist? TipTok Jun 2016 #7

Shooting up a gay nightclub had nothing to do with race. Exilednight Jun 2016 #9

Talking about the speaker who hijacked... TipTok Jun 2016 #11

This, is why we can't have nice things... Odin2005 Jun 2016 #4

We're a tribal species The2ndWheel Jun 2016 #8

Here's the ironic part, they're both fighting for the same thing Exilednight Jun 2016 #10

It was a memorial Aerows Jun 2016 #14

These people have bastardized "intersectionality" into meaning... Odin2005 Jun 2016 #15

I thought about posting this last week. pintobean Jun 2016 #3

I certainly appeared selfish and insensitive to me. Aerows Jun 2016 #13

Sadly this seems to be a common problem here on the left, we eat our own. Odin2005 Jun 2016 #16

I also thought about posting it last week cagefreesoylentgreen Jun 2016 #17

Wow... I find this very sad. n/t demmiblue Jun 2016 #6

BLM has completely lost it. romanic Jun 2016 #12

*sigh* Not cool. n/t X_Digger Jun 2016 #18