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LGBT News Obama Shuts Down Homophobe Heckler With Class!

Discussion in 'Current Events, World News, & LGBT News' started by Foz, Jun 25, 2015.

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  1. Foz

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    Obama has some real style :lol:

    [YOUTUBE]z3Q5Wq1kOBg[/YOUTUBE]
     
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    This was not a homophobic heckler. The heckler was a transgender woman of color who works for an LGBTQ immigration advocacy group. She was heckling the President's policy of deporting LGBTQ asylum seekers, which is a fair point, but it was not the right way to go about trying to change his policy.
     
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    The YouTube comments on this video are not exactly encouraging
     
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    Very true.

    To be fair, I find it rude that she was interrupting the president, so Obama's response is understandable in my opinion.
     
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    I definitely agree that what she did was uncalled for. Talking to the President after his speech would have been more productive.
     
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    This thread needs a new name :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
     
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    Then again, we're all human and she was just voicing an opinion. She probably felt awful and still feels awful simply because her little slight was magnified by that she was directing her criticism at a figure of authority supposedly better than everybody else.

    Also, I dislike Obama's attitude of shaming opposition as "skeptics and cynics", which admittedly applies nicely to Republicans, but he is nastily generous with that phrase according to me... random but oh well
     
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    She shouldn't have interrupted him either way. I doubt he was opening the floor to debate at that moment.
     
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    My favorite:

    "Said the most Black thing he could have said in the whitest way possible. This man really is mixed."

    :roflmao:
     
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