But I can understand why @SamWinston would find that offensive, can’t you? Being gay isn’t a bad thing, it just is. So, it’s kind of a fine line between gay being a slur and making fun of people who are homophobic.
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No kidding. Is Iowa really so homogeneous that an all-white football team is a normal thing? And if so, why do we keep letting them have the first stab at deciding who the candidates to represent the entire country will be?
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Absolutely, I’m not saying he shouldn’t be offended by it. But I think that context is super important here, and there’s a lot more to Serafinowicz’s Trump videos than “ha ha gay people sound funny”. Whether he’s using a cockney thug voice or an effeminate gay voice to dub Trump’s actual words, it’s to show how his exact phrasing can take on a whole new meaning with just a change of tone and inflection. That’s why I’m not offended by his videos; I’m a gay man but I don’t take them as making fun of gay people in general, at all.
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Fair enough!
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Because taking that first stab away from Iowa would be racist against white people.
/s
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I don’t know much about Iowa’s team, but google pics show quite a few “non-whites”. Perhaps they didn’t want to be photographed with Trump (or Trump didn’t want to be photo’d with them?) Dunno, maybe the non-white players skipped the rally because it was for Trump.
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Hetero male here … And for awhile now I’ve been thinking “Well it’s funny because it’s Trump but it’s kinda insulting to gay people” but I thought well I’m never the first one offended, and nobody had said anything about it so I guess it’s just me assuming others would be insulted.
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I barely knew any of those people … Probably because of my nationality and assisted by the fact I live in box.
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Hey, look, Trump has disabled supporters!
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Kinda surprised he didn’t jump on that. “Well look at this guy, my gimp! He’s a great gimp, folks! Loves me like they all do. Those gimps, yes, they’re good people!”
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Personally he’s reminding me of Heller. That scene where Spider headbutts someone at Heller’s rally and people start cheering him for being a real American for doing so. Trump reminded me of that reallll early.
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I’ve been watching these thinking it is really borderline stuff, I appreciate your perspective and I think you probably speak for a lot of people.
Xeni just LOVES them to bits though! I find it hard to fault her, so I’m always trying to excuse these. It takes a fair amount of effort to smother the cognitive dissonance though.
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