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dsc

(52,162 posts)
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 07:00 PM Jul 2019

Remember when Biden was taken to task for saying making fun of gays happened 5 years ago

and people would look the other way. Well here is an article from last month.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/06/14/mother-arrested-for-confronting-sons-homophobic-bullies/?fbclid=IwAR2UvyJpslb7bSleu6pB96NLxzzhMFOAUdXy9XJi6xCG_Tqw-rMOAiB5Urg

She claims the bullies called her son “gay” and “stupid,” but that her concerns were dismissed by the school.

The mother entered the school without permission and confronted a group of third grade children, as well as a teacher.

Beforehand she posted a video on Facebook saying she was going to the school, which prompted someone to alert the police.

Rathburn said, according to Fox 32: “He was told that he was ugly, that he was stupid, nobody cared, and he was called gay, he was cussed out, and when he reported those things he was told to ignore it.” She claimed the school had told her the behaviour was “boys playing rough.”

She also claimed that the treatment of her son became violent, and that bullies threw him off a sliding ladder by his neck and hit him with a computer

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last month. Oh and at the bottom of the article a mention of child who killed herself after being bullied for being gay. So please, please spare me the it doesn't happen crapola.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Remember when Biden was taken to task for saying making fun of gays happened 5 years ago (Original Post) dsc Jul 2019 OP
Nobody made the argument... tonedevil Jul 2019 #1
"but it doesn't happen in SEEEEEEAAAATTLLE" wyldwolf Jul 2019 #2
to millions of ppl its ok to rape torture and murder lgbt people worldwide nt msongs Jul 2019 #3
Truth. NT SouthernProgressive Jul 2019 #4
 

tonedevil

(3,022 posts)
1. Nobody made the argument...
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 07:14 PM
Jul 2019

that it doesn't happen. Biden said that it used to happen 5 years ago, but we have come a long way since then. I would say that after the advent of donald as President with the attendant rise in vitriol we can stop patting ourselves on the back for living in such enlightened times. Additionally there were quite a few, myself included, who wondered why Biden spoke of a gay waiter. Does he think most gays are waiters or that most waiters are gay? The push back about those remarks was not in the least misdirected.

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wyldwolf

(43,867 posts)
2. "but it doesn't happen in SEEEEEEAAAATTLLE"
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 07:16 PM
Jul 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

msongs

(67,406 posts)
3. to millions of ppl its ok to rape torture and murder lgbt people worldwide nt
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 07:59 PM
Jul 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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