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11/11/09
This is not to 'endorse' her or 'attack' Obama or whatever (and I actually can't even believe I have to state this as a disclaimer), but a runner-up beauty queen doesn't really have the same power or influence as the POTUS, and that's a very crucial point to make.
(I kind of totes believe her on the Trump thing, tho. That man is a creeper, through and through!) #carrieprejean
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But of course what Prejean wants is to claim that because she has the same bigotry as Obama she must also have some of his good qualities.
Not so much. #carrieprejean
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Prejean is a white woman, with all the entitlements and privileges that skin color brings you in this country. Obama is a black man, and thus has faced institutional racism his whole life. Obama is not a bigot for the same reason reverse racism doesn't exist: To practice true bigotry or racism, you have to have the power of the institution behind you.
Carrie, YOU ARE A BIGOT. Now what are you going to do about it? I suggest stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com as a launching pad to your shiny new life as a former beauty queen who tours the country explaining your own white privilege and how you overcame it just enough to keep your nose, and your votes, out of gay people's love lives. #carrieprejean
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While I agree with you in terms of race and privilege, both Prejean and Obama benefit from being straight and heteronormative, in a country, culture, and legal system that favours that. It is very easy to oppose gay marriage, or say that marriage is for 'a man and a woman only,' when you are never going to face the repercussions of this statement.
And given that this particular issue is about the rights of LGBT, I think it is important to not let this important distinction fall by the wayside. #carrieprejean
11/12/09
I didn't mean to overlook this critical distinction; I wanted to point out that Prejean cannot compare herself to someone with whom she has no shared experience, i.e. being black in America. The fallacy of her statement, "If that makes me a bigot, so is Barack Obama" is that it's overly simplistic, ignoring the American context of race and heteronormalcy.
I'm deeply disappointed that Obama hasn't taken more of a stand on gay rights, but ultimately I consider Prejean to be a bigot, not Obama, for the reasons stated here and in my earlier comment. #carrieprejean
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see, when you put it this way it just sounds plain ol' unconstitutional. #carrieprejean
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I am of the idea that the government shouldn't really get involved in marriage AT ALL...other than a marriage certificate being considered as legal proof for hospital visitation and the like. CIVIL UNIONS, from gay and straight couples, should be legally recognized. Marriage? That should be up to whatever church or organization marries you. If, say, civil unions were legal for anyone, but the Catholic church decided not to marry gays, fine. They can be a private institution. But the government has to marry anybody...which then gets into polygamy, which is insane and all, but I'm of the opinion that consenting adults can do whatever they want as long as it doesn't harm anybody else. *whew*
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Which is it?? #carrieprejean
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I am shocked, shocked to discover gambling in this establishment! #carrieprejean
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MONSTROUS! #carrieprejean
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I heard he even gave the most beautiful a crown and a banner proclaiming her such! And then he put the next three most beautiful in order so everyone would know! #carrieprejean
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Not Miss USA. Miss USA doesn't have a talent competition, and replaced its interview portion with a single final question reserved only for the finalists--so the final five girls selected based on evening wear and swimsuit wearing abilities get to answer a single question, and before that they all compete based only on looks.
They're ranked on their "merits" only after the top five prettiest pretties have been selected. #carrieprejean
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Just as there are publicity hounds, there are people on the opposite end of the spectrum, too. Perhaps it's because I'm personally an introvert who would hate to be constantly in the public eye, but I'm a bit offended by your implication that one has to prove oneself as a "serious writer" before they're allowed to decline interviews. #carrieprejean
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Am I missing something? Why exactly can they still claim "marriage" as something that belongs to them, exclusively?
@Ulookinatmyjunk, JOC: Seconded. She's as boring and stupid as every other cretin who makes themselves famous by being pretty (or plastic...Speidi?) on the outside, REALLY stupid on the inside, but all I can think when I see her (or Sarah Palin) is, "Fuck off, little girl. Go away, go away, go away." #carrieprejean
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Of course, I kid. It would have been so easy for me to not read it. It was just too tempting! #carrieprejean
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whoa whoa whoa, miss prejean back the truck up. legally recognized sacrament? sacrament = church, legal = state. never the twain shall meet. theres that pesky little thing called the first amendment of the us constitution.
although i agree with the second part of her statement (i cant believe i just wrote that). obama has a virtually identical position on gay marriage. just because he doesn't sound the moral panic alarm or scream at the hysterical pitch of miss prejean, he has no intention of repealing doma in the near future and has defended marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution. its not so simple as a red state/blue state division. there are plenty of anti-gay rights democrats. #carrieprejean
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There are a slew of ways to go after Glen Beck without pushing the tired idea that it's fine to push misogynistic violence as entertainment or to score cheap points. It just trivializes it. #carrieprejean
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Carrie: "I'm a bigot, but so is the President."
That means that you are still a bigot, Carrie! #carrieprejean
11/10/09
Basically, she's calling progressives out for giving him a pass, even as they hate her for having the same belief about what the legal definition of marriage should be.
11/10/09
I was agreeing with wtfox?! that she can't deflect her own bigotry just by saying the president agrees with her. That just means they're both bigots. #carrieprejean
11/10/09
If, like me, you believe that he really does suppot gay marriage but denies it for political purposes, then he is a liar.
I choose liar Obama over bigot Obama, but I will say this. If he goes 8 years without coming out and supporting gay marriage, then I will call him a bigot. #carrieprejean
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