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GOP & Policies toward/treatment of Transgender & other LGBTQ Americans

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tarheel931 said:
As a 24 year veteran of the Navy, this disgusts me. This is openly and blatantly homophobic and racist. There's also discussion of renaming other ships of that class: USNS Medgar Evers (T-AKE-13); USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE-14); USNS Lucy Stone (TAO-209); USNS Sojourner Truth (TAO-210); the future USNS Thurgood Marshall (TAO-211); the future USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg (TAO-212); the future USNS Harriet Tubman (TAO-213) and the future USNS Dolores Huerta (TAO-214). The entirety of the GOP has become a race baiting, homophobic, transphobic cesspool of human filth. Hillary was wrong when she said, "half of Trump supporters fit into a basket of deplorables, while the other half are people who feel the government has let them down and need understanding and empathy". Screw that. They're ALL 'effin deplorables.
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If they fucking take Harriet Tubman's name away, I'd be almost ready to revolt. People don't get much more heroic than risking life and limb to free 50,000 slaves from captivity. If we had a Mount Rushmore of great Americans who weren't president, she'd be on it (I'm assuming there would be more than four faces). She definitely deserves to be on a naval vessel.

This isn't to say that I find the other renaming OK, but the Harriet Tubman really, really, really annoys me.
 
superrific said:
If they fucking take Harriet Tubman's name away, I'd be almost ready to revolt. People don't get much more heroic than risking life and limb to free 50,000 slaves from captivity. If we had a Mount Rushmore of great Americans who weren't president, she'd be on it (I'm assuming there would be more than four faces). She definitely deserves to be on a naval vessel.

This isn't to say that I find the other renaming OK, but the Harriet Tubman really, really, really annoys me.
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Not to mention, leaving aside how outstandingly worthy she is of being honored, the USNS Harriet Tubman has to be one of the best ship names in Navy history.
 
ZenMode said:
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Riley Gaines, who has never won anything in her life, criticizing the greatest gymnast of all time for being a loser is quite a take. As is trying to weaponize Biles' own sexual abuse against her.

Riley Gaines is a hateful bigoted person. A woman who was given every advantage and punches down. I mean, she was an All-American at swimming. She could be proud of that, but instead she decides to act exactly like you'd expect from a dumbass blond girl at UK.
 
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You know how many fifth place finishes Riley Gaines would have had had her uninclusive dreams came through - one. Exactly the same as she had when Lia Thomas participated in accordance with the rules then and they tied for fifth (or maybe Gaines was just barely sixth).

In any event, I got to see Biles speak earlier this year. I was immediately struck by (a) how young she still is and (b) how tiny she is. I know she is all muscle but she is an insanely short athlete. A little human tank.
 
superrific said:
Riley Gaines, who has never won anything in her life, criticizing the greatest gymnast of all time for being a loser is quite a take. As is trying to weaponize Biles' own sexual abuse against her.

Riley Gaines is a hateful bigoted person. A woman who was given every advantage and punches down. I mean, she was an All-American at swimming. She could be proud of that, but instead she decides to act exactly like you'd expect from a dumbass blond girl at UK.
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Your opinion of Riley may be accurate. It is pretty shitty to use the sexual abuse scandal in that way. However, her point about invalidating the feelings of many to validate the feelings of the very, very few is accurate.

We are supposed to validate the feelings of a single male over the feelings of the all the females "he" impacted. The females who didn't make the team, didn't make the starting lineup, missed out on the postseason, came in second when they should have come in first, came in third when they should have come in second, etc.
 
ZenMode said:
Your opinion of Riley may be accurate. It is pretty shitty to use the sexual abuse scandal in that way. However, her point about invalidating the feelings of many to validate the feelings of the very, very few is accurate.

We are supposed to validate the feelings of a single male over the feelings of the all the females "he" impacted. The females who didn't make the team, didn't make the starting lineup, missed out on the postseason, came in second when they should have come in first, came in third when they should have come in second, etc.
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We get it. You hate queers. Take it to a Pride Parade.
 
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