Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumRemember 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.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)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.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
wyldwolf
(43,865 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
msongs
(67,193 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
SouthernProgressive
(1,810 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided