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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBridges to Hawley: I want to recognize that your line of questioning is transphobic
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Bridges to Hawley: I want to recognize that your line of questioning is transphobic (Original Post)
kpete
Jul 2022
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Walleye
(31,028 posts)1. What a colossal prick!
dchill
(38,505 posts)2. Probably not literally - but I take your point!
Snicker.
Walleye
(31,028 posts)3. Yes exactly. It's like calling a great big guy by the nickname Tiny
EYESORE 9001
(25,949 posts)5. He wears a necktie
as a foreskin restraining device.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)4. Gee Josh, she didn't adopt your bigoted framing
That clearly upset Sen. Hawley to have his bigotry framed for him so clearly, despite his protestation that he's just asking questions. Bigoted questions that deny the existence of certain persons who are particularly vulnerable in our society who make Sen. Hawley uncomfortable.
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)6. I'm in total awe of people like her.
To be able to stand firm in the face of a bully, who also happens to be a U.S Senator, during a televised hearing takes so much courage and fortitude. I know that I couldn't do it.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,869 posts)7. I couldn't do it. Those guys are so aggressive and
Rude. I wouldn't last past the first salvo. Their whole technique is to steamroll people and it works
I love Prof. Khiara Bridges now
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,356 posts)9. Radical Republican extremists try to drown out any dissenting voice.