# Bush to gays, minorities: "Bite me!"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-to-gays-minorities-bite-me/53498>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 7, 2001, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-to-gays-minorities-bite-me/53498 "2001-02-07T14:24:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-to-gays-minorities-bite-me/53498/41 "2001-02-08T15:10:56Z")

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Eve,

I for one am glad this thread is shutting down. God, what a disgrace.

While I will NOT express my own opinion as to who I believe is right or wrong in this “debate,” can anyone here just accept the fact that a specific person might be acting like a fucking asshole, regardless of his or her sexual orientation? It’s not heterophobe. It’s not homophobe. It’s people overreacting and blaming it on everything but that person and their actions.

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**Author:** ![Freedom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Freedom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freedom)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-to-gays-minorities-bite-me/53498/42 "2001-02-08T15:13:41Z")

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In retrospect,

I regret even mentioning Esprix. It was dumb and pointless. I could care less who sleeps with who, or how many whos they slept with. I have never had a problem with Esprix, and I regret swinging at him in here.

Other than that, my post was directed at Hastur.

If you can’t see the turn around on Hastur’s words, then I don’t know what else to say. I have used that technique before, and I will use it again. In fact, it is currently in use in GD in the ban black people thread. I hate seeing bigotted behavior when it emenates from people who would visually self-identify with me, and I hate hearing it from people on “the other side” of some imaginary line.

I have been here a long time. Show me a history of my homophobia. The only interactions I have ever had on threads with a gay theme were light hearted ones.

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**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-to-gays-minorities-bite-me/53498/43 "2001-02-08T16:16:55Z")

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At the request of the OPer, I’m closing the thread down.

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