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We are hearing from a woman who says the mayor of a Long Island village made anti-LGBTQ remarks
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on one of her Instagram posts. CBS News in New York spoke with Rebecca Chavez, who runs an
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animal rescue in Rio Grande Valley. They have a bit of a controversy going on in New York,
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it relates to an animal rescue in Texas, where reportedly a mayor of a small town in New York
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left a mean comment on a woman's video where she was dancing and in the background, a wife for
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a thing, I don't even know what it is, honestly, I'm with the commenter in this regard,
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left a message that was deemed to be very offensive, not only to the person in the background,
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not only to the woman who posted the video, but apparently as you heard in the open of this,
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according to the local news, to all the LGBTQ XXIIP community. And yeah, we gotta hear a little
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bit of a reading of this particular comment so we can make our judgments, but this is gonna be
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the topic for today, make no mistake about it. Chavez posted a video for dancing along with her
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wife D, who can be seen there in the background. Well, a comment on the video read, what's that
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thing in the background? A guy, a girl, some creature? Look, I'm gonna be perfectly honest with you guys
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out there in the audience, the comment was in fact funny, the comment was in fact hilarious,
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but it is a bit odd, it is a bit weird that the mayor of a town would be going on random
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Instagram videos and making such sharp criticisms, such sharp points of individuals like this,
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but yeah, when looking at this person, I can't tell if that's a vampire, a guy, or a girl,
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or whatever. So I understand the question, I understand the implication of the question,
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but of course, this has stirred up a whole mess of controversy in New York State,
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and I think it's important for us to talk about this today, but before we do, I want to thank
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everybody who tells me what's in my background over an actual Justice Word.com slash joint.
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Oh, give me the money. Give you, give me the money, okay? When I found out who he was and I posted it
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and gained the traction that it did, first he commented and said, I wasn't talking about the person,
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I was talking about the dog in the background, which we know is a lie. It's like, hey, if you were
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confident enough to make such a hateful comment, then own it. Oh, what you said. Why are you
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trying now to deflect and say that you're talking about my white dog in the background? You know
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that is not true. So first of all, I don't know why this lady's trying to make it a racial thing
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by highlighting the fact that the dog in the background is a white dog in the background. Although
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I do find it interesting that she distinguishes the dogs by color, and she's clearly dancing with
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the black dog in the foreground also in addition to that. I feel like I've been catfished by the
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original Instagram video in comparison to this video because yeah, she looks like a totally
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different person just by a change in the lighting and the camera setup. And you think if you were
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going to do an interview on TV, then you would very likely, you know, want to have the best view
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possible for your TV interview. But of course, this controversy goes far beyond a stupid Instagram
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comment, something that I honestly found laughable at first glance. Because of course, they decided
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that they're going to launch an investigation into the mayor over this. And again, I will just point
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out that this is a rude Instagram comment about a vampire that was in the background that the
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mayor was only trying to warn this text in about in my humbleest of humble opinions.
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Sagarber Village Mayor Thomas Gardella is in hot water over social media comment. Some say was
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insensitive to the LGBTQ community at the village boards monthly meeting Tuesday night. Ed Hay
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the deputy mayor announced that the village will launch an investigation into the mayor's comments
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Rebecca Chavez, who has an Instagram account out of Texas on Monday reported the comments linked
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to the mayor's private Instagram account. Miss Chavez had posted a real with her wife Deanna
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who has short hair dancing in the background in the comments. It appears that Mr. Gardella commented
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from his private account. What is that thing in the background? A guy or girl? Some creature.
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Question mark. Miss Chavez, who is an animal rights activist, then posted a new video in which she
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calls out the mayor's comments and traces it back to Mr. Gardella. His comments were then sent out
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to all the email addresses listed on the Sagarber Village website. Quote, Oh, Tom, you should know
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better a caption across the video reads in response. The mayor appears to comment again. Quote, I was
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referring to what I think is a white dog. I only get a glimpse of him or her in the video.
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I can clearly see a person dancing. You shouldn't make assumptions. A dog does appear in the video
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briefly. So one of the funniest things about this particular story is that you realize that the
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controversy is nowhere near as widespread as the reporting of the controversy because this article
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says that 60 people, 60 whole human beings actually responded to that comment saying that this man
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is a homophobic and he should definitely apologize for his homophobia and this is after this woman
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made a new video ended up drawing additional attention to it and of course actually emailed the
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video and the comments to every single email address available on the Sagarber website again to
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maximize this in order to get the most amount of attention surrounding it and still you only had
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60 people replied of this comment. Although I will point out the comment is clearly in my opinion
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the mayor trying to cover his tracks in a hilarious way saying that he was actually talking about
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the white dog so it turns out he brought up the race of the dog which I find to be very questionable
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rather than actually the person that he was very likely talking about because you don't typically
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ask if a dog is a guy or a girl or some creature honestly if we're being perfectly fair about this
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but yeah this is what we're talking about a mayor with a private account. I'll never understand
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people with ghost accounts on the internet.com secretly leaving sniping comments in the background
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of this particular page which again is an animal rescue in Texas. I'm not even sure how he would
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have came across this but apparently this is the primary main issue and again it's such an issue
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for Rebecca Chavez that she actually have to track down the original commenter go after him try
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to ruin his life and what appears to be an old school instance of cancel culture and then he sent
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me a private message saying I'm sorry if I offended you you know for my comment I did not reply
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to him whatsoever but what I did do was I sent an email to the deputy mayor and one of the other
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board of trustees. Now look I know I commented on this before and usually on this channel we only
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make positive comments about people's appearances because here on the actual justice warrior channel
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we like to uplift rather than tear down like some of you out there in the comments you're
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disgusting bigots that definitely 100% discuss me but am I supposed to just accept that this woman
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is totally catfishing me in the other video and in this local news segment she looks like a different
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person like this does not look sensible again if this were the Israeli prime minister everybody would
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assume that this is an AI deep fake and this person is definitely not alive because as somebody
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works with cameras every day I definitely 100% 1000% do not understand the concept of different
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lighting changing images and of course different focal lengths on lenses verma webcam versus a
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cell phone camera where the other video was likely filmed so obviously this is trying to make us
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believe that Israel is winning the war and that makes me really truly genuinely uncomfortable
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and honestly more on the mayor side because he's fighting back against the propaganda that we are
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being spoon fed by this government again definitely definitely 100% these jokes will not age out
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the moment or two weeks from the moment I publish this video I want to apologize for my comment
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I also would like to apologize for my many friends in the LGBT community who feel disappointed in me
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this administration holds a high standard of conduct and accountability and no one is above
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reproach especially the mayor so as you just heard right there the mayor actually ended up
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apologizing for these comments which is unfortunate because they were in fact hilarious and I
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rather enjoyed this story plus all the different articles that people wrote about their outrage
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related to it but if we're being perfectly honest it's probably not the best thing for a mayor to
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be leaving random comments on people's Instagram to call out the appearance of other people now while
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it was in fact hilarious and the guy definitely has a future as a podcaster the fact is an apology
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was very likely to be the outcome because of course you have the board of trustees in this particular
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area demanding an investigation even though again what the hell are you even investigating the guy
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left a comment on Instagram you're gonna dig into it do freedom of information act requests
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calm down to testify it's absurd it's ridiculous this is basically a non controversy that almost
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nobody saw you have oversensitive catfishers that are really angry about it and again I will just
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point out that we still do not have an identification on whether or not that individual is in fact a
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vampire now of course one apology is never enough so the mayor actually followed up the village
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is board meeting with another apology saying I want to apologize no one is above reproach especially
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the mayor he added he has many friends and whatnot in the LGBT community his Instagram account is
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now set to private and in a later phone interview the mayor actually ended up saying quote I meant
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what I said and although I thought that was him doubling down on still asking what even is that
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thing in reality that was in regards to his apology so it seems like this non-traverse or
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controversy depending on how you want to look at it has ended with him yielding bending the
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knee to the gay mafia and yeah it's really sad in my humbleness of humble opinions because the
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story is kind of funny if we're being perfectly honest and nobody was truly hurt or harmed by this
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comment but again I want to know what you guys think down in the comments below as per usual if
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