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bigtree

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8. this isn't a competition

Reply to Angel Martin (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 04:30 AM

Jun 2016

...and it's high time America took responsibility for our own bigotry and violence without measuring our nation against the worst offenders around the globe and concluding that, somehow, we're better.

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Radical American Homophobia, Racism, and Bigotry [View all] bigtree Jun 2016 OP

I think it is foolish to take this guy's words at face value oberliner Jun 2016 #1

I don't think Dad's words (alone) were the point of the post salin Jun 2016 #2

His quote is pretty prominent in the post oberliner Jun 2016 #3

you missed the point bigtree Jun 2016 #4

I take that point oberliner Jun 2016 #6

It was also a direct attack on Latinos malaise Jun 2016 #10

I just picked up on that point reading accounts this morning bigtree Jun 2016 #11

His father has a nasty history and is offering this kiss as if it was a righteous excuse to kill. Bluenorthwest Jun 2016 #5

when it comes to radical homophobia Angel Martin Jun 2016 #7

this isn't a competition bigtree Jun 2016 #8

America won't BumRushDaShow Jun 2016 #9

On Monday, Omar Mateen's father posted a video in which he said this as 49 graves were being dug: Bluenorthwest Jun 2016 #12

Mateen's father is a well known supporter of the Taliban cali Jun 2016 #13