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In reply to the discussion: Apology to Bravenak [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)fodder and being attacked for strong self advocacy in the face of Democratic campaigns that universally rejected equality for us and in the case of Obama held religious based rallies that were openly hostile to gay people and which used literal hate preachers to pander to the crowds.
Most of DU sided with the bigots then, that's damn sure. LGBT posters were driven off, purged, mocked, denigrated and bullied.
Today on DU, you can find people who are fully in support of heckling Bernie Sanders who in the past have condemned heckling and disruptive politics entirely, fully, absolutely. They have said those who do such things, at anytime for any reason are complete and total fools. They attacked LGBT activists for doing that which they support when it is done by others. Bias. Then they proceed to attack anyone who has any criticism of the activists, in spite of the fact that they themselves have stridently criticized activists for the exact same tactics.
Many of the people who are supporting the Seattle action are showing in the process how bigoted they were toward LGBT activists who interrupted events. We were idiots, fools, posters said they were just sick of those tactics, no matter who uses them. But what they meant was they don't like LGBT people.
So this is what this place was, this is not what this place has become. This is what this place is.