| re: Randy Rainbow’s old, racist, and transphobic tweets resurface | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 01:27 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Randy Rainbow’s old, racist, and transphobic tweets resurface - ryhog 08:25 am EDT 08/20/20 | |
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| i agree that he should have taken them down and should make a statement. And i am shocked at the stupidity and insensitivity that he left them up until now. Anyone with his platform should have scrubbed their social media accounts clean of anything like these tweets -- whether he personally saw them as offensive or not, just out of the fear of being cancelled. It makes him seem both stupid as a professional and insensitive as a comedian. And yes, i wasn't comparing him at all to Siriano... i was saying Siriano did it right, and it was something Randy would have known about as it happened before these tweets, i.e. he had no excuse really to think it would be seen as "ok" if anyone was gonna see his tweets, and obviously he is dealing with it the wrong way. I agree there's a problem with gays being prejudice against their own (and I agree transgender is not necessarily their own, so I'm not entirely sure why this is being brought up as if it is), that doesn't mean that gay people might have context to use the T word that wouldn't be as harmful or hateful or dismissive as the intention when a straight person might. It's a generalization that would need specific instances to illuminate and I don't have those, but it was definitely seen as different enough to be notable. I think for some gay people it was used as a term of endearment, reclaimed like f*ggot etc, but obviously is not ok if for no other reason because the gay men saying it weren't "trannies". But Randy wasn't using it that way. Randy's usage was more mean spirited and random. anyway, his tweets are awful and gross and he should have taken them down years ago, and he should be apologizing now. |
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