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Ellen: It’s Only “Different Beliefs" Because The Effect Is Minimal For You
Your white, classist privilege shields you.
If someone punches you and you cry, “you punched me in the face!” and they return with “I believe it’s not a punch, I just grazed you”, does that take away the actual effect of the hit? Are you going to agree to disagree? Sounds ridiculous right? That’s basically what racist, anti-LGBTQ, war criminal Bush and the Ellen debacle is — ridiculous.
Ellen DeGeneres went to a sporting event and was called out because she was beside, and laughing with, former president George W. Bush. People could not understand why someone part of the LGBTQ community would befriend someone who did believe in her equal right to marriage.
“I’m friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs that I have. We’re all different and I think that we’ve forgotten that it’s okay that we’re all different.”
Ellen handled it in a typically privileged, wealthy white woman manner when she addressed it on her show. She joked about the anger online, then responded we can be friends with people who have different beliefs. Her “live and let live", “be kind to all" is beautiful to hear……
