Thread by @frodofied

Dear @PeteButtigieg,

You could have done something beautiful in this race, but now you have fucked up royally and you're mistake will taunt everything before and after.

You mistake the media attention you get for criti3cizing @HillaryClinton as support.

Many do.

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The hot take you are offering is really not so hot or new. It's the same tired retread that has been making the rounds about Clinton since Nov 2016. The media is just treating it like a skinny new toy because, not sure if you have noticed, but they don't like her.

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Clinton had it rough in 2016.

The ways in she was mistreated (mostly because she was a woman) are too many to recount here.

You sound like every white hetero male pundit out there who somehow thinks they understand what she faced.

They don't, and clearly neither do you.

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She was asked questions no one else who ever ran for president was asked, was held to higher standards than the rest, had to work and fight harder, faced down terrible assumptions, as well as brutally disingenuous criticisms and outright lies, and all because she was a woman.

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Vaginas terrify people.

Which, at the end of the day, is Shakespearean level irony. Every one of us travels through one to find life, and a good portion of us spend much of our lives in the pursuit of returning to one.

But irony be damned, misogyny lives.

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Just like homophobia lives.

See where i'm going witn this?

It's sad you didn't put in the time to consider that you are going to be treated differently, asked different kinds of questions, andbe forced to face terrible assumptions all because you are gay.

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But you won't receive the full brunt of course because you're not a serious candidate. Which is not to say you are not a sober and determined one, only that there is not a single soul out here fearing a @PeteButtigieg presidency.

There just isn't.

But she was a contender.

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She was the first goddamn it.

How fucking dare you.

Seriously.

Who the fuck are you?

You haven't earned the right to walk in her shadow let alone criticize the way it exists in this world.

You should really know better.

Blaming Hillary?

What about Trump's voters?

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A large portion of the US population refused to consider the woman. And make no mistake, the same poison would've been inflicted on any woman.

It wasn't a Hillary thing.

It was a woman thing.

Just like it's a gay thing with you.

And like it was a black thing with Obama.

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I guess I understand it when straight white dudes don't get identity politics but it really pisses me off when a member of a minority group like ours pretends like this shit doesn't matter.

Did you think you being somehow courageous by attacking Clinton?

Fuck that.

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Courage would have been looking at Clinton's experiences in 2016 and defending her. You would have a chorus of one. You would have been criticized, and possibly mocked.

But you should have been right.

You have been honest.

THAT would have been something.

Sigh.

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Courage would have been looking at Clinton's experiences in 2016 and defending her. You would have been a chorus of one. You would have been criticized, and possibly even mocked.

But you would have been right.

You would have been honest.

THAT would have been something.

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