Posted on 05/12/2019 7:39:03 AM PDT by reaganaut1
LAS VEGAS — Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., on Saturday directly confronted one of his biggest vulnerabilities as a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination: running as a white man who has led a life of relative privilege at a time when many in his party are eager for a woman or a minority candidate to become their next leader.
Speaking at a fund-raiser for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender causes, Mr. Buttigieg drew on his own experiences as a gay man in a predominantly straight society. But he also rejected the idea that “there are equivalencies” in the forms of discrimination experienced by different minority groups and individuals.
“I may be part of the L.G.B.T.Q. community. But being a gay man doesn’t even tell me what it’s like to be a trans woman of color in that same community, let alone an undocumented mother of four or a disabled veteran or a displaced autoworker,” he said at the event, hosted by the Human Rights Campaign.
Mr. Buttigieg recalled the experiences of several historically oppressed groups and the political movements that brought greater social and political equality, including Latino farm laborers, black civil rights activists and the early gay rights movement that grew out of the Stonewall rebellion in Greenwich Village. He called for “the beginning of a new form of American solidarity” among people who understand that they live “in a society that sees us for what makes us all different.”
At the same time, Mr. Buttigieg warned that identity politics can be corrosive on the right and the left, and said he feared that it often drove people in his party with a common purpose bitterly apart.
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So if you are American citizen you are "privileged" and your interests take a back seat to an illegal alien who along with her four children is being subsidized by the government? According to Buttigieg, he is still less "privileged" and therefore more worthy than the rest of us because of his sodomy.
What a puke
Scraping the gutters for votes....I wonder if this perv has anything to say to normal, straight Americans??? Probably not.
>>> Mr. Buttigieg warned that identity politics can be corrosive <<
Marxism is corrosive. So is perverted immorality.
This faggot’s entire platform is: “Love Me Because I’m Gay - That Makes Me Special!”
“when many in his party are eager for a woman or a minority candidate to become their next leader. “
Define “many” - then tell me how large a segment of that “many” are taxpayers that work a full time job....
This cat has little appeal outside of a very, very small segment of the far left base.
I won’t vote for him.
Why you ask? Because he’s gay?
No - because he is another in a long line of self-destructive Liberals - an tuber-Liberal if you pay attention.
“Mr. Buttigieg warned that identity politics can be corrosive”
Yet the rest of his speech is all about it.
All these idiots in the clown circus are talking about race, gender, social justice, giving away the store and nothing about running this country making a better life for those who are WORKING and are making this country run. I am so disgusted with these fools words cannot describe! THEY ARE NOT REPRESENTING ME. we need to make sure that TRUMP wins in a landslide, no questions no debates no nothing and we all need to make sure we win back the house so they will be nothing but back ground noise as we move forward
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Now that there is a buttload of crap! Talk about D-lusional. Butt, no doubt the libs luv them some buttplug.
How many levels of intersecionality victimhood can Buttplug drill down through?
Jeer the Queer.
they are not being subsidized by “the government”- they are being subsidized by you and i...
“... or a disabled veteran ...”
I guess he had better hope he doesn’t have to run against Dan Crenshaw down the road.
Between Buttplug and AOC they pulled in about 18000 votes. That hardly makes them relavent.
Non of this pandering does squat for his general election chances.
He IS Identity politics.
Exactly. They’re so wrapped up into what they identify as that they use it as a reason for running and as a big filter in their decision-making. They’ll be bound by analysis-paralysis if every decision they make needs buy-in from all “aggrieved” fringe groups.
This perv will get the homo vote and not much else. As so much of the American electorate is illiterate, they will never put this creep and his “first lady” (LOL) in the White House.
Ride him Pete!
Ride him like a dog!
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