Hillary Clinton tells gay boy: 'Your future is going to be amazing'

[DemocratSinceBirth]

CNN)The creator of popular photo blog Humans of New York posted a picture Friday that has proven exceptional even for a Facebook page with 13 million followers.

"I'm homosexual and I'm afraid about what my future will be and that people won't like me," reads the caption of a photo of a tearful boy.

As of Saturday, the Facebook post earned more than 500,000 likes, 45,000 shares and a response from none other than presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The former secretary of state offered words of comfort in a comment signed "H" bearing the verified avatar of her campaign logo.

"Prediction from a grown-up: Your future is going to be amazing. You will surprise yourself with what you're capable of and the incredible things you go on to do. Find the people who love and believe in you -- there will be lots of them."

How's that for validation?



http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/04/politics/hillary-clinton-humans-of-new-york-feat/

[Duckhunter935]

1. Great she evolved

Now he can get married and have equal benefits.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Evolution is good, Darwin said so./nt

[Duckhunter935]

3. Yep

Some evolve quicker than others.

[MoonRiver]

4. I'm sure you'll catch up.

[Duckhunter935]

5. Been evolved in this for the past

30 or so years. I did not just evolve like some.

[riversedge]

10. Evolution is not even with all--but it is progressive. Lets just be

be glad that Democrats have evolved so that so many --like that youngster in the OP now has the Freedom to some day marry whomever he wishes. In solidarity

[dsc]

34. really you supported marriage equality in 85

just what did you do to promote that view back in 85?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. I hope we all will evolve to the point we don't shoot at things that can't shoot back./nt

[Duckhunter935]

7. I have, never hunted

And do not plan on starting anytime soon.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. I made no personal reference and merely a remark about evolution./nt

[Duckhunter935]

11. Then my apologies

I just seems odd that would come up and the coincidence of my screen name.

[Cali_Democrat]

25. Gun nuts are perhaps the least evolved Americans. nt

[Duckhunter935]

26. Impressive insult, thanks

[MoonRiver]

8. As an animal rights activist, I definitely agree.

[chervilant]

18. Really rude, dude...

On Sat Jul 4, 2015, 09:53 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

Using children as ideological human shields is child abuse.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=425394

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Disgusting and OTT post, please vote to hide. "Child Abuse" and "Human Shields" what a TROLL.

JURY RESULTS

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Sat Jul 4, 2015, 10:08 PM, and the Jury voted 6-1 to HIDE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Dude -- I'm pretty lenient, but that's over-the-top. The "human shield" metaphor alone is bad enough, but then to accuse Hillary Clinton of the heinous and immoral crime of child abuse is way too much. Jeez. Pump your brakes, man.
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Ignorant cheap shots are a dime a dozen on DU.. Hide.
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Nasty vitriol. This isn't an issue, this is a real, living berating human being.
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: The other comment from this poster is just as offensive.
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Over the top even for GD-P.

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

[Duckhunter935]

28. Well deserved hide it was too

[chervilant]

30. Yes, indeed.

Wonder if there's a pizza in the offing...

[Agschmid]

14. Whaaaaaaaaaaat a stretch.

[Sheepshank]

15. Omfg...this is nothing more that HDS

And an incredible pretzel twist I finding something with which to bash Hillary. This cheap shot is pretty low.

[Cha]

17. Jury results on his hide..

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Disgusting and OTT post, please vote to hide. "Child Abuse" and "Human Shields" what a TROLL.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Sat Jul 4, 2015, 10:08 PM, and the Jury voted 6-1 to HIDE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Dude -- I'm pretty lenient, but that's over-the-top. The "human shield" metaphor alone is bad enough, but then to accuse Hillary Clinton of the heinous and immoral crime of child abuse is way too much. Jeez. Pump your brakes, man.
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Ignorant cheap shots are a dime a dozen on DU.. Hide.
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Nasty vitriol. This isn't an issue, this is a real, living berating human being.
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: The other comment from this poster is just as offensive.
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Over the top even for GD-P.

[Agschmid]

20. Great hide.

[Cha]

21. ..

[Cha]

22. Good alerter's comment too which I had not posted but just edited in.

[ismnotwasm]

16. Eww.

[Cha]

19. Mahalo for this beautiful story, DSB.. Well said by Hillary..

"Prediction from a grown-up: Your future is going to be amazing. You will surprise yourself with what you're capable of and the incredible things you go on to do. Find the people who love and believe in you -- there will be lots of them."

[DemocratSinceBirth]

23. I can't believe two posters seem to believe followers of Hillary Clinton are enemies...

I can't believe two posters seem to believe followers of Hillary Clinton are enemies of human existence:

Joe Magarac This message was hidden by Jury decision. Hide
13. An enemy of human existence is a Hillary follower. No surprise. n/t

A Jury voted 5-2 to hide this post on Sun Jul 5, 2015, 11:41 AM. Reason: This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

If they are reading this can they please share their reasoning with the rest of us.


Thank you in advance.

[JaneyVee]

24. How does this not have 400 recs??

Oh yeah, because its Hillary.

[hrmjustin]

27. Did you see the hidden posts above?

Pizza worthy imo.

[DemocraticWing]

29. I teared up when I saw that

She did a good thing, and deserves respect for that.

[Bonobo]

31. The media advisor that came up with this marketing strategy

Was a real keeper. Since I am pretty sure Hillary didn't randomly run across this Boy while messing around on Facebook, I will assume a clever media consultant came up with the idea to "humanize" and "personalize" Hillary.

Very well done and she or her speech writers wrote a very beautiful and Hallmark worthy paragraph for the occasion.

Nice job. I give it high marks as a campaign event.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

32. She must be in cahoots with Ellen:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251425727

[Bonobo]

33. It could be, yes, although "cahoots" makes it sound dirty

It's not dirty at all, but to give the impression that it wasn't part of a campaign event set up for her is not really honest.

It is a campaign media event and Ellen was part of it.

Nothing dirty, just calculated like the set up shot of the boy in soft focus, head in hands.

Set up. Well done.