Itâs regrettable that up to a few dozen protesters decided to stalk and shout insults at the governor and police when we should all be listening to each other and coming together as a country in a respectful manner.â
Thatâs Ricky Diaz, spokesman for Pat McCrory, in a statement  regarding an incident in Washington, D.C. on Friday, which was recorded and uploaded to Facebook by user Udai Basavaraj.
Walking with Fox Business Network broadcaster Lou Dobbs, a small crowd chased McCrory down an alleyway, who wound up blocked by a locked door. Protestors corner the politician, shouting âshame!â and âantigay bigot!â
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âYouâre a bigot an an asshole,â one protestor yells, as well as âYouâre not a man â youâre a coward!â and âHow can you be like thatâŚ? We got you nowâŚâ
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After our sister site LGBTQ Nation picked up the story over the weekend, the video has been viewed over 85,000 times.
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âGovernor McCrory is thankful to Lou Dobbs for helping during this incident,â Diaz said in the same statement, âand very thankful to the D.C. police for keeping everyone safe during a very successful inaugural weekend.â
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PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Well, that was productive. At least they enjoyed themselves.
BlokeToys
Yes, it was productive, it was a peaceful protest by people expressing their opinion in the face of a violently ignorant bigot who once had the power to abuse hundreds of thousands of people and deliberately damaged the economic prospects of millions for his Tea Party crusade of hate.
And now, a few hundred thousand people get to enjoy seeing him running away.
Jack Meoff
They sure don’t like being on the receiving end of being taunted and harassed and made to feel small like many of us have over the decades. They should try living in fear of their safety for a while and see how that feels.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
What a wasted opportunity. Unless it’s narcissistic outrage workout. We gotta be smarter than them, folks
dinard38
I totally agree. We have to be smarter than this. I keep warning that the LGBTQ community needs to learn to pick and choose their battles. If we go after EVERY perceived slight against the community, that will just motivate the anti-gay establishment to fight harder to turn back LGBTQ rights. Chasing this man down an alley and yelling ‘Shame’ was not productive. And for those who think this was ok, imagine this reversed where some evangelicals were chasing down a gay couple into an alley yelling ‘Shame’. Y’all be in an uproar.
Gotta learn to pick and choose our battles.
FnameLname
OH watch out everyone DINARD38 is here to WARN us to pick and choose our battles! How dare we make a move without discussing it with those that have been warning us for quite some time.
dwes09
@dinard38:
So, are we supposed to wait until the LGBT equivalent of Kristalnacht before we stand up to those who think us less than human? If EVANGELICALS chase us shouting shame, THEY ARE DOING THE SAME THING AS MCCRORY DOES WITH LEGISLATION, demeaning our humanity. And there is no reason for us to tolerate that under any circumstances, there is no equivalency to your silly example. Do you so lack critical skills that you cannot see that?
dan_smith
Not sure if it was a wasted opportunity. Gotta take those when they come available. It might have more impact if there were more than a few people shouting “shame.” Although it didn’t work on Cersei either đ
BlokeToys
It’s good to see a bigot politician having to face the people he abused and attacked. For too long these politicians have been insulated from the public. They hide in their mansions, they push protests so far away from them with “permits” that they never have to be held accountable publicly, they refuse to answer questions when the pathetically weak US media has a rare recollection of what their job actually is.
I’m fed up with it. Back in the 80’s and 90’s politicians were regularly confronted on their decisions by the press, they had to come out of their gated community, face a crowd and explain themselves, they had to defend their actions or at least attempt to.
These days, they all run and hide, making laws from their privileged and protected position while their uniformed goon squads “enforce the law” to keep them insulated from any public anger.
Enough. If you represent a public you shouldn’t have the opportunity to run away and hide from them like a pathetic little child.
Kieran
Well I’m sure that incident will definitely change minds about gays. I know having some maniac stalking me on the street while screaming “Shame!’ for 3 minutes would definitely leave me with a favorable impression.
dwes09
That is not the point, but we do not expect heterosexuals like you who come here to troll us to understand that. You’d have us wait until homosexuality is re-criminalized, and then just sing kum-by-ya! You and your ilk make me sick! Go hang out on Breitbart and Storm Front. That is where you belong breeder boy! You are simply not wanted here. This site is for gay people who understand their self interest, it is not for your kind who would happily see us back in the closet or perhaps dead.
dwes09
So here is a little lesson, though it might be too complex for a dull mind like yours:
The Reform Movement in Judaism was an attempt on the part of my ancestors to be fully accepted and fully assimilated into German Society. When fascism came to Germany, it did them no good. They were still the outsiders and went to the camps and eventually the ovens.
Now the rudiments of fascism are here. Gay apologists and heteros come here and tell us to play nice, to not make waves, to blend in, to “choose our battles”. Do you think we trust people like you unless we are really stupid (like you are)? We will not wait until it is too late we will not trust the Christian right or any of the right for that matter. People like Pat McCrory are our enemies and should be treated as such. What exactly makes you think that we can “leave a good impression” with someone who thinks us sinners, akin to addicts and rapists, and unfit for “christian society”?