Teabaggers used "faggot" and racial epithets as insults
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/88041-cbc-member-says-health-bill-protesters-called-rep-lewis-the-n-word
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Just after Frank rounded a corner to leave the building, an older protestor yelled "Barney, you faggot." The surrounding crowd of protestors then erupted in laughter.
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Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) said Saturday that healthcare protesters at the Capitol directed racial epithets at him and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) as they walked outside.
Lewis was one of the leaders of the civil rights movement alongside Martin Luther King. Jr. Asked if racial epithets were yelled at him, Lewis responded, "Yes, but it's OK. I've heard this before in the '60s. A lot of this is just downright hate." --- Sadly, this seems par for the course for them.
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Well Brian, I suspect that you missed the point that I was trying to make.
Clockcat decries hate in all of it's form, except for those people whom he happens to hate. Then he is fine with hate speech.
So some douchebag called Barney Frank a fag. Well, let it be known that Barney Frank is open about the fact that he prefers the company of gentlemen. So on some level, it was a statement of fact. This does not change the fact that the person who called him that is a douchebag.
However, every time that clockcat starts a thread about those horrible teabaggers, he is making the fallacy of association. Really, he is no different than the people who say shit about other people because they can be identified with a group.
All fags rape young boys because of the “secret agenda” to recruit more people to homosexuality.
All niggers steal shit and rape white women.
All chinks are opium addicts.
All teabaggers are, well, umm, the guy who called Barney Frank a fag.
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As much as I want to disagree with some of this.... dead-on!
(I can, for better or for worse, see both sides of the argument here except the 'extremes')
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