Title is somewhat misleading. They don’t say “this is discrimination against white people”.
They say we need to “get from [people who don’t like Platner]: ‘why do you hate him so much?’ … for a lot of [them], it’s just aesthetics. He looks like someone they don’t like.”
“It’s the flip side of the early 2010s and 2000s, when the gay rights movement was getting steam. Once people started coming out of the closet — ‘oh that guy’s gay? I love that guy! And my wife is fine around him.’ This is the reverse, for liberals.”
“It’s like: ‘this is a white guy, and he’s actually pretty nice.’ A big, burly combat vet! Somebody you could see with Joe Rogan — and he’s fine. Don’t be afraid, don’t be scared.”
I’m a white guy and soo guilty of this. I’m immediately suspicious of white male politicians especially if they’re older and thus much more inclined to preemptively support a gay brown woman.
That said, I’m not convinced Platner is Fetterman 2.0 and I kinda feel attacked when people bring up his “questionable” post history because I would HATE for someone to define me by the dumb shit I posted before something clicked and I went hard left. My friend grew up in the southern sticks with opinions so bad, he’s too uncomfortable to discuss even now.
The biggest mark against him is the tattoo thing. I believe that he didn’t know what it meant at the time but I don’t believe no one told him in the X years since. Yet at the same time, I’m unconvinced that he kept it for any reason beyond laziness.
Grim is responding to Chris Rabb. We are going to have MTG as a top progressive with this logic.