Reply #466: Yeah, I agree with both your points. One - there's racism in the GLBTQ community, hell yes there is.

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(There is also sexism, ageism, classism, etc. See a couple of my posts upthread).

And I agree with you that a number of these OPs could have been phrased more sensitively or were perhaps even ill-advised in the first place. But I don't think that a single one of them was intended to be racist. In fact, I think that most of them were intended to be anti-racist. But I can't say for sure because I didn't post any of them. And that's the larger point - the people who posted those threads may or may not be GLBTQ but either way they don't speak for ALL GLBTQ people, any more than any one black person speaks for all black people. So if this is the Big Evidence for GLBTQ DUers being a "den of vipers" and "vile racists," it's pretty damn weak.

And none of them seem to have anything whatsoever to do with the poster who was specifically accused of racism in the referenced subthread.

I don't what the purpose of this is except to cause trouble.