I think @mtracey is right on a lot of issues-primarily #RussiaGate. With that said, this is an awful take and wreaks of out-of-touch privilege. You don't minimize homophobia & bigotry and tell someone being harassed to "get over it." It doesn't matterhttps://twitter.com/thetomzone/status/1136430766144065543 …
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Harassment & homophobia IS NOT THE SAME THING as mockery and ridicule. Mockery and ridicule is mocking Wolf Blitzer for being a human snail who fluffs corrupt politicians pillows for a living. Publicly castigating someone with homophobic slurs is not mocking or being provocative
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it's being openly bigoted toward another human being---doesn't matter if it's a journalist or a garbage collector. I think your disdain for the coastal-cocktail-crowd-PR-flacks-pretending-to-be-journalists (which I share) is making you lose sight of the fact that bigotry is a
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I’ll take false equivalence for $800 Alex:pic.twitter.com/mEENWrKGXW
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The shift from mocking his work or words to mocking his identity is a substantial one in the public consciousness and often in law.
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Not from other big public figures on the basis of your sexuality.
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