re: Platner - But if personal imperfection disqualifies a candidate, Washington DC should empty itself immediately.

[Sympthsical]

75. Some of it is genuinely funny

The vast majority of the remarks flagged are calling things gay on Reddit. In one of those instances he amusingly qualified it by saying it wasn't in the "fun, d***-sucking way" which doesn't scream virulent homophobe to this gay man's ears. The Bahrain story was fantastic.

I have heard worse shit at a Safeway.

Meanwhile, how long did some in our leadership take to see LGBT relationships as equal?

Uh huh, uh huh. And they could still be candidates for president, right? Because some of this Platner stuff is being dated to 2016, and I know of people in 2016 who had to be dragged kicking and screaming to LGBT equality in a timeline not dissimilar.

It's so insincere.

Seriously, read this Advocate article. As a gay man? I find Platner's remarks kind of hilarious. Because they're so obviously not filled with hate. I'm being honest and not putting on le grande performance for the edification of those who buy into this stuff. There's one instance of the f-word which is, like, girl no, even though it's not being directed at gay people. But the rest of it . . . I don't know of a single adult gay male who would care. Not one.

I do know some who would pretend to if it served purpose, though. And with them, it's like, y'all act like we don't know each other.

https://www.advocate.com/politics/graham-platner-homophobic-posts