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Stephen Colbert (Out of Character): 'It Gets Better'

10:30 am - 07/21/2011
He might be a little late to the game, but Stephen Colbert has uploaded a video message to the It Gets Better Project's YouTube channel.
The project, which was started last fall by writer Dan Savage in response to a wave of very public LGBT youth suicides, has had a bunch of comedian contributors, but it's good to see Colbert drop character for a minute and use his mass appeal to reach out to his younger fans.



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barnbat 22nd-Jul-2011 09:16 pm (UTC)
And there are some gay people who are able and willing to pass as straight in school and are privileged to have traits like good looks and strong athletic ability that would allow them to avoid the sort of bullying Colbert was victim to. Colbert would be better situated to understand the experience of being bullied and talk about dealing with it than some gay people, although not situated to understand the experience of being gay.

There's more than one sort of privilege, and sometimes people can personally relate with only part of another person's pain regardless of whether they belong to a same group.

It's good to have a wide variety of videos kids can sift through to find whatever speaks to them and whoever they want to hear from.
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