# Obama and Divisiveness

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [March 8, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-and-divisiveness/748286 "2016-03-08T15:38:15Z")\
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> [@DerekMichaels00](#):
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> kicked to add the transgender thing to list of divisive actions by Obama.

Totally ignored these in the thread about the [bathroom issue](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19331063#post19331063), didn’t you?

> [@Political fallout of transgender bathroom issue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-fallout-of-transgender-bathroom-issue/754775/19):
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> That is exactly what the school-bathroom memo does. It puts us all on the same page, under the same laws, where everyone has guaranteed rights.
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> It was the assholes in North Carolina who were dividing us. They’re getting sued, and, with luck, they’ll be put in their place, along with the rest of their old Jim Crow brethren.

> [@Political fallout of transgender bathroom issue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-fallout-of-transgender-bathroom-issue/754775/20):
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> You seem to think that Obama’s response to OBVIOUSLY divisive politics (the whole “transgender bathroom thing” was STARTED when some Republican politicians decided to MAKE it big thing)…Is for Obama to ignore it.  
> So when someone STARTS creating laws that are against a certain group… when there was no problem before… Then its DIVISIVE for the other side to say “NO.”
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> Okay then.

> [@Political fallout of transgender bathroom issue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-fallout-of-transgender-bathroom-issue/754775/21):
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> I guess in some books, “uniting” looks a lot like “give in to the bigoted assholes who want the freedom to hate and oppress others.”

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