Reply #151: I want to say that this thread and many others have hurt me to the core. [View All]

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There have been a lot of calm, thoughtful posts and threads here from gay people that sank like stones over the past week. Hardly anybody bothered to post on them or acknowledge that any gay people were not racists. I posted a thread noting that the exit poll might not be accurate. I posted another thread talking about how we need to move beyond who voted and move into why and what we can do about it to promote human rights for all. They both sank like stones. Instead, dozens of DUers have posted threads complaining about how bigoted gay people are being here on DU. Not one of those posters - some of them very longtime DUers - bothered to post on my thread or any of the other threads appealing for calm. Nobody has acknowledged that the vast majority of posts from gay DUers have spoken out against racism.

Instead we get posts like this. "We" are at fault because "we" are racists.

I'm a long-time DUer who supported Barack Obama for president and often speaks out against racism. I'm also gay. The things I've read here against gay people this week have hurt me to the core.

The worst thing in the world is to be called a racist. A lot of longtime DUers have done exactly that, calling out me and every other gay DUer as racists without a shred of evidence. Suddenly the words of anonymous bloggers and anonymous people in crowds are applied to every gay DUer.

How is this not just as bad as claiming that an exit poll "proves" that all African Americans are bigots? I've never said such a thing. Neither have the vast majority of gay DUers. Yet we are being trashed all over this forum

Had more rights taken away on Tuesday. Called racists on Thursday.