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In reply to the discussion: If it's not racism, then what is it? [View all]Prism
(5,815 posts)I do not disdain the President. In fact, I wrote an OP last year about why he deserved the LGBT community's vigorous support during the election.
However, there are those in our community who are suffering injustice that the President himself could alleviate - but he chooses not to. Who am I to tell them how to feel?
I also think many LGBTers were soured by Obama partisans who were brutal and cruel during the homophobic incidents of the '08 campaign and the defense of DOMA fiascos during 2009 and 2010. While the LGBT community was fighting and pushing the President, his partisans were doing everything they could to put a boot in our faces.
Including a lot of names I see in this thread.
And after acting as partisan human shields and doing fuck all to help us influence the President, they tried to claim all the credit for our victories.
I totally understand how many in our community are sour, if not on the man, then on the image held of him by some if his most unempathetic and merciless partisans.
There's a saying. "Dear Jesus, save me from your followers." When it comes to how Obama partisans have treated LGBTers, that issue is lurking in spades.