"All Faggots Must Die"

[teleen_fiction]

This is a comment that was left on a blog post earlier today.  Guess what?  It came from the office of Sen. Saxby Chambliss.
This comment, left by someone who identified themselves as "Jimmy", was made by a person who was hired by one of the two people that the state of Georgia have chosen to represent them in the United States Senate.

Really think about that for a moment.  Someone interviewed this person and hired them on behalf of the Senator and got no inkling that they were a small-minded bigoted piece of excrement.  

Because bigots don't wear nametags.  And even if you think that your audience would be receptive, saying, "All faggots must die" in an interview would probably lose you the job.

If it sounds like I'm being flippant here, I sincerely apologize.  I'm just saying that I think it would be unwise to assume that whomever hired this asshat knew he was a bigot before they hired him and/or that the Senator supports this statement.

Then again, if you're a US Senator and you don't know enough about the people who work for you to know that this is how they feel, you don't deserve to keep your seat in the Senate.  

The Senator has very little recourse here.  He can say that he had no clue that "Jimmy" hate-mongering, violent tool.  He can immediately fire "Jimmy" and say that he denounces what they said, but seriously?  If I were one of his constituents, I'd start to wonder if that was how the Senator really felt.  Because someone with that level of hate in their heart can't hide it very easily.  I don't care how good at lying they are, something always slips out.  And if this person felt comfortable enough to type "all faggots must die" on their computer at work, then where the fuck are they working?

Comments

[alt_universe_me.livejournal.com]

Hey bb, almost in tears right now. Okay am in tears, um, I'll get back to you later

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[alt_universe_me.livejournal.com]

Thanks, bb. I'm much less emotional today, yesterday was just one of those days for me...

This is so deeply disturbing, I don't even.

Homophobia is so scary to me. I'm glad to have my flist on lj where I can express who I am without nasty people like the ones who made those comments.

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

Homophobia is both scary and ... to me. I just don't get it, honestly. It's like - why do they care? I mean, seriously, why does it matter so much to them.

And from what a few other people have told me, even if the Senator didn't make the comment himself, he probably condoned it.

Asshat.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

This is so many kinds of wrong

It's wrong that such hatred was expressed - because ye gods

It's wrong that this should come from the office of an elected official (that's freaking terrifying)

It's wrong that the staff of an elected official is so ignorant they wouldn't realise they'd be caught

And it's wrong that the staff of an elected official thought that the repercussions of this would be so minor that it wouldn't matter

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

This.

[vikingwriter.livejournal.com]

What's really sad is that this doesn't shock me. I think I've lived in the South too long. The only thing that really surprises me is that the guy didn't have enough savvy to realize he could be traced to his office computer. That seems politically very stupid. But the opinion? The expression of it? Not that surprising.

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

It's sad that I wasn't surprised either, when I learned what state they were in, :(.

[darth-eldritch.livejournal.com]

Just googled Chambliss. It could have been Chambliss himself. Chambliss defiant.... Even Republicans criticize this guy for his hard ass attitude.

There is no excuse for this. Ever.

Jerry Falwell said this kind of shit years ago, and a my old friend, who was staunchly Catholic to the core, joined the Gay Rights movement because she was so outraged by the hate in this kind of sentiment.

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

The rage I feel the more I learn is staggering.

One more reason why I want to crawl back under my rock.

Or wish for a global extinction event so that the Earth can evolve something better...