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NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 12:44 PM Feb 2017

Milo promoted one of the most disgusting and old attacks on the gay community.

As we rejoice in this fuckwads demise, lets not forget that what was just promoted was the most horrid of attacks on the LGBQT community. Religious wingers have spent a long time working to link pedophilia with homosexuality. It is a tactic that has worked for them.

We should fight fire with fire. In one breath Milo makes it about being gay and claims that there is a link to pedophilia. In the next breath he makes comment about his priest being one of the reasons he give such good head. He did not link the priest with being gay. From his own argument I would instruct him he is making the case that pedophilia comes about from religious zealotry.

I'm happy as could be that this guy has been taken down a notch. That said, my heart sinks every time I hear someone connecting homosexuality to pedophilia. I think there is a lot more to this Milo piece of shit than we know. It's like he is on script.

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Milo promoted one of the most disgusting and old attacks on the gay community. (Original Post) NCTraveler Feb 2017 OP
I could NOT agree more... I hope their gay baiting and dog whistling backfires... Raster Feb 2017 #1
Me too shenmue Feb 2017 #2
Before Bill Maher's show, I knew little about him Jarqui Feb 2017 #3
+1 uponit7771 Feb 2017 #5
Exhibit A for why Maher is a putz jeanmarc Feb 2017 #6
This issue was a main theme of the (otherwise wackadoodle) Young Pope series frazzled Feb 2017 #4

Raster

(20,997 posts)
1. I could NOT agree more... I hope their gay baiting and dog whistling backfires...
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 12:52 PM
Feb 2017

...I envision a LARGE, GAY DOBERMAN with extremely long pearly whites.

Jarqui

(10,118 posts)
3. Before Bill Maher's show, I knew little about him
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 12:58 PM
Feb 2017

His name is so unique, that stuck in terms of recognition but I didn't know what was behind it.

Now I do. Good riddance.

The guy is messed up and should not have a megaphone.

I'm on the fence about Breitbart continuing to employ him because they kind of deserve each other.

jeanmarc

(1,685 posts)
6. Exhibit A for why Maher is a putz
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 01:03 PM
Feb 2017

Let someone earn it. Maher doesn't put every race baiting asshole on his show. How Milo got on is extremely selective and fuck you Bill for calling us intolerant.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
4. This issue was a main theme of the (otherwise wackadoodle) Young Pope series
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 12:58 PM
Feb 2017

The Jude Law/Pope character is a conservative who at first hardens the Church's stance against homosexuality, wanting to rid all gay priests from the Vatican and beyond, but by the end comes to comprehend clearly how the problem of child molestation that plagued the Church is totally different from sexual orientation. D'oh.

But as I said, the whole thing was surreal and kind of crazy, but so beautifully filmed and acted that it was worth binge-watching.

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