"All Faggots Must Die"
Sep. 21st, 2010 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teleen_fictionThis 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?
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?
