US Senate candidate Graham Platner reassures transgender Mainer he will fight for LGBTQ+ rights. Despite past controversies, he emphasizes growth and empathy. #GrahamPlatner
I actually will say it with my chest that I’d prefer a senator who is a social progressive, anti-billionare, who doesn’t take super PAC money, doesn’t take AIPAC money, loudly professes there is a genocide in Gaza, wants to improve US foreign policy, is actually working class, runs a grassroots campaign, and wants to improve the cost of living and affordability for Mainers and the rest of Americans. And yes, if he made a mistake and got a Nazi tattoo (Which he has fully owned up to and has since covered up) I would still prefer him.
If you think this is some sort of “gotcha” that somehow indicates something poor about my character, or that somehow I’m admitting that Platner is a Nazi, which he’s not, then there’s nothing more I have to say to you. You are wrongfully attempting to jump to an assumption of something that just isn’t true and lacks evidence. You’re providing further evidence to my point that your purity test mindset is keeping people divided.
You’re so quick to call marginalized people “divisive” for having standards. Why is it freedom of speech for rich white guys to get Nazi memorabilia on their chest, but when PoC push back then the conversation is suddenly about ”civility"?
No, I don’t think Platner is a Nazi. I think he’s fine with having Nazi imagery on his chest for 20 years. It’s a boldfaced, unbelievable lie that a military history buff didn’t know what a Totenkopf was.
Yes, it does demonstrate poor character to be fine with Nazi iconography. Your reticence to admit such was an attempt to be moral, but if you’d rather abandon any principles you might have had for this guy, you are correct that we don’t have anything to talk about.
I actually will say it with my chest that I’d prefer a senator who is a social progressive, anti-billionare, who doesn’t take super PAC money, doesn’t take AIPAC money, loudly professes there is a genocide in Gaza, wants to improve US foreign policy, is actually working class, runs a grassroots campaign, and wants to improve the cost of living and affordability for Mainers and the rest of Americans. And yes, if he made a mistake and got a Nazi tattoo (Which he has fully owned up to and has since covered up) I would still prefer him.
If you think this is some sort of “gotcha” that somehow indicates something poor about my character, or that somehow I’m admitting that Platner is a Nazi, which he’s not, then there’s nothing more I have to say to you. You are wrongfully attempting to jump to an assumption of something that just isn’t true and lacks evidence. You’re providing further evidence to my point that your purity test mindset is keeping people divided.
You’re so quick to call marginalized people “divisive” for having standards. Why is it freedom of speech for rich white guys to get Nazi memorabilia on their chest, but when PoC push back then the conversation is suddenly about ”civility"?
No, I don’t think Platner is a Nazi. I think he’s fine with having Nazi imagery on his chest for 20 years. It’s a boldfaced, unbelievable lie that a military history buff didn’t know what a Totenkopf was.
Yes, it does demonstrate poor character to be fine with Nazi iconography. Your reticence to admit such was an attempt to be moral, but if you’d rather abandon any principles you might have had for this guy, you are correct that we don’t have anything to talk about.