Or something to that extent.

And yes, he was freaking out. I'd freak out to if I was sexually harassed. It's inappropriate, insulting, inconsiderate, and damaging. So Ron Paul stormed out, and said he's queer. We can debate if he used it pejoratively, descriptively, or a blend of both. But what he DIDN'T do is react violently, he did NOT call Cohen a fagot, a fudgepacker, a fairy, or any other of the multitudes of words far worse than saying queer. The fact that he WAS sexually harassed (which we both agree), and still kept his sense enough about to only say queer, and did not file a lawsuit which would have been rather easy, says a lot.

Your phrase “He's an idiot, his political ideology kills people,” tells me enough. You don't like him, you don't like his policies, and as soon as he was on camera you were looking for him to do something that would come off bigoted. I don't give a damn about Ron Paul. I think he's pretty much an idiot. And perhaps he is a bigot. But he didn't demonstrate that in the movie. He was harassed and he stormed out.

Hell, calling somebody “white” can be used pejoratively as well. Any word can be. But Paul chose a rather innocent descriptive word in a moment of anger and shock. He very easily could have done so much more.

If anybody's in the wrong here, it's Cohen. He sexually harassed somebody, period. Now it was absolutely hysterical, but I could argue he did more damage to homosexuals here, portraying them as aggressive, constantly horny people who will trick people into going into small rooms with him. Now I won't do that, because he did it for humor, and it's an isolated incidence.

Paul said two things in this exchange, neither of them terribly harmful.

But I find it most ironic that the person who is bashing Paul for bigotry has dismissed half the country as inbred assholes.

My example about calling a black person a monkey is the same thing as calling someone a “queer” when using the pejorative use of the word.

And yes, I am putting him in a negative light. Why? Because he's an idiot, his political ideology kills people (that's for another debate), and he's shown in this very film that he is a bigot.

He did not become flustered. He was freaking the fuck out. He was scared and wanted to get out of there because Cohen was “queerer than x”.

And I am a dumbass for using the example that I have undressed in front of campmates when I was a child. That is totally different, indeed. Yes, Cohen sexually harassed him, but that does not excuse RP's behavior.

And yes, he was freaking out. I'd freak out to if I was sexually harassed. It's inappropriate, insulting, inconsiderate, and damaging. So Ron Paul stormed out, and said he's queer. We can debate if he used it pejoratively, descriptively, or a blend of both. But what he DIDN'T do is react violently, he did NOT call Cohen a fagot, a fudgepacker, a fairy, or any other of the multitudes of words far worse than saying queer. The fact that he WAS sexually harassed (which we both agree), and still kept his sense enough about to only say queer, and did not file a lawsuit which would have been rather easy, says a lot.

Your phrase “He's an idiot, his political ideology kills people,” tells me enough. You don't like him, you don't like his policies, and as soon as he was on camera you were looking for him to do something that would come off bigoted. I don't give a damn about Ron Paul. I think he's pretty much an idiot. And perhaps he is a bigot. But he didn't demonstrate that in the movie. He was harassed and he stormed out.

Hell, calling somebody “white” can be used pejoratively as well. Any word can be. But Paul chose a rather innocent descriptive word in a moment of anger and shock. He very easily could have done so much more.

If anybody's in the wrong here, it's Cohen. He sexually harassed somebody, period. Now it was absolutely hysterical, but I could argue he did more damage to homosexuals here, portraying them as aggressive, constantly horny people who will trick people into going into small rooms with him. Now I won't do that, because he did it for humor, and it's an isolated incidence.

Paul said two things in this exchange, neither of them terribly harmful.

But I find it most ironic that the person who is bashing Paul for bigotry has dismissed half the country as inbred assholes.

My example about calling a black person a monkey is the same thing as calling someone a “queer” when using the pejorative use of the word.

And yes, I am putting him in a negative light. Why? Because he's an idiot, his political ideology kills people (that's for another debate), and he's shown in this very film that he is a bigot.

He did not become flustered. He was freaking the fuck out. He was scared and wanted to get out of there because Cohen was “queerer than x”.

And I am a dumbass for using the example that I have undressed in front of campmates when I was a child. That is totally different, indeed. Yes, Cohen sexually harassed him, but that does not excuse RP's behavior.

I apologize for confusing you by saying assault and harassment. Please forgive me.

“All Cohen did was dance while clothed and undress to his underwear.”

That's all he did? Really? It looked to me like a blatant seduction ploy. He took Paul to a closed room and started stripping.

“I'm guilty of both since I have undressed and danced in front of my fellow campmates when I was a child.”

Yeah, this is the same. Kids dancing around and an adult gay male stripping for a politician. Jesus Christ, come on.

Do you really think he would have just gone through with it and been fine if it was a woman who was stripping? No, he would have left. Maybe he would have called her a whore on the way out. “Oh no such intolerance.”

Your 'black person' attack is not fair either. For one, 'nigger' and 'monkey' are completely pejorative terms. 'Queer' is a term gay people actually use to describe each other. Again, I ask you, what could Paul have said? “He's gay?” would that have been insulting? “He's a homosexual” I'm sure would have been acceptable, and “He likes to have sex with other men!” would have been the most descriptive. He was flustered, he used a relatively tame word. He could have used “fagot” “fairy” or any number of insulting words, but he used Queer. That's what I mean when I say he kept his composure relatively well. He thought that this was really somebody trying to seduce him into having sex with him. It's obviously unprofessional, and definitely sexual harassment. He didn't react violently, he didn't use any slang words, he used the term 'queer,' a term many gay people use for themselves. He could have been so much worse. But he wasn't.

You're looking to put him into a negative light. And based on that he doesn't deserve it. I take in the fact that he was just put through the runner, and he reacted in a flustered but responsible manner.

If we get right down to it, we basically have sexual harassment vs. saying somebody is queer. Faulting P**l for that is beyond absurd. Now perhaps he's said OTHER things, that I haven't heard, that put him in a more negative light. But what I saw in Bruno showed someone who kept his composure together rather well.