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  • #61
    Originally posted by Starchild
    I mean, oh my god people, this forum has examples of some really insidious forms of discrimination. Take the ****ing "homo-gay" insult flying around. I can't even begin to tell you how much that pisses me off. There's not even any need for it considering how versatile the English language is with swearing. No one bats an eyelid when someone says "that's homo-gay". Can you imagine the uproar of someone went around saying "That's only fit for the ******s"? It's the exact same thing. You're placing yourself above an entire group and looking down upon them in the most insulting way possible.

    You have always been WAY too uptight with this. Relax man, relax.

    You know in real life *I* am ALWAYS the one going above and beyond the call to defend gays when I hear people discriminating against them.

    Nobody is looking down on anybody.
    We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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    • #62
      Honey, the big stuff I'm not uptight about. Like being told "Aids is a punishment" or being avoided by a friend when I come out to them. Yeah, I can deal with that.

      It's the day to day stuff that wears me out. The kids running around the playground calling their friends "******" and "queerboy" as petty childish insults. No one even blinks when they do. If they had been using any other word for any other social group, they'd have been boxed around the ears. I spent a year helping ADHD diagnosed kids at my school and every third world they said was a homophobic insult. They didn't even realise how insulting it was. They wouldn't have dared say the world "******" but they threw "******" around freely. It's depressing and frustrating being the last social group that it's still marginally acceptable to use as an insult in such a manner.

      The difference between you and Stewart is that I like you. I know at the end of the day you don't mean what you say, no matter how annoying seeing you type "homo-gay" is. With Stewart, I just don't know anymore. So if I get the chance to insult him back, well, that's the least I can do. It's people like him, so freely and unthinkingly being insulting that makes everyone else think it might be acceptable.

      So I'm going to be a bit uptight about it thank you very much. I can't yell at the kids or teenagers, only hope that they mature and get better. A jerkoff like Spink though, I can yell at. Helps me get rid of a bit of stress and you know how bad stress is for the complexion.
      Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
      -Richard Dawkins

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      • #63
        do you like me too?

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        • #64
          Yes. I find German accents very sexy.
          Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
          -Richard Dawkins

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          • #65
            Originally posted by Starchild
            Honey, the big stuff I'm not uptight about. Like being told "Aids is a punishment" or being avoided by a friend when I come out to them. Yeah, I can deal with that.

            It's the day to day stuff that wears me out. The kids running around the playground calling their friends "******" and "queerboy" as petty childish insults. No one even blinks when they do. If they had been using any other word for any other social group, they'd have been boxed around the ears. I spent a year helping ADHD diagnosed kids at my school and every third world they said was a homophobic insult. They didn't even realise how insulting it was. They wouldn't have dared say the world "******" but they threw "******" around freely. It's depressing and frustrating being the last social group that it's still marginally acceptable to use as an insult in such a manner.

            The difference between you and Stewart is that I like you. I know at the end of the day you don't mean what you say, no matter how annoying seeing you type "homo-gay" is. With Stewart, I just don't know anymore. So if I get the chance to insult him back, well, that's the least I can do. It's people like him, so freely and unthinkingly being insulting that makes everyone else think it might be acceptable.

            So I'm going to be a bit uptight about it thank you very much. I can't yell at the kids or teenagers, only hope that they mature and get better. A jerkoff like Spink though, I can yell at. Helps me get rid of a bit of stress and you know how bad stress is for the complexion.


            Alright well I guess maybe I'll stop using that phrase. It's just so damn original and catchy though.

            Helps me get rid of a bit of stress and you know how bad stress is for the complexion.
            We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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            • #66
              Originally posted by Ecthelion
              do you like me too?
              Jawohl, Ecthelion ist sehr gut.
              We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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              • #67
                Starchild:

                I remember years ago, when I first registered, you started a thread about how you fell in love with somebody, and MAN! How the insults flew from the likes of Joe and Jeszincka (I'm positive about the first, pretty-sure about the latter). Pretty damned pathetic, if you ask me.

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                • #68
                  good lawd that's going back
                  We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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                  • #69
                    I agree with Starchild...it all depends on who is the person making the statement along with the "unspoken" (real or imaginary) meaning behind the statment in the first place.
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                    "One day if I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven - I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'" - Herb Caen, 1996
                    "If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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                    • #70
                      I'm branching out to other languages for my swearing. It's fun.
                      Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
                      -Richard Dawkins

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                      • #71
                        The kids running around the playground calling their friends "******" and "queerboy" as petty childish insults. No one even blinks when they do. If they had been using any other word for any other social group, they'd have been boxed around the ears.


                        When I was a kid, we have people say "Don't be a Jew". It was a generic insult.
                        “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                        - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by JohnT
                          Starchild:

                          I remember years ago, when I first registered, you started a thread about how you fell in love with somebody, and MAN! How the insults flew from the likes of Joe and Jeszincka (I'm positive about the first, pretty-sure about the latter). Pretty damned pathetic, if you ask me.
                          ah yes...that silly 13 year old "liking someone = eternal forever love" thing. You know how much I drink to try and forget that?

                          Alas, that proved to be the height of my relationship history and since then, it's all been downhill.
                          Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
                          -Richard Dawkins

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                          • #73
                            Originally posted by Ted Striker
                            good lawd that's going back
                            My ...mind is like a steel... uh, something. Trip?

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                            • #74
                              Kids used to say, "ohhh you jewed me." Or "ohhh you gypped me."

                              We had no idea that those words actually referred to Jews and Gypsies years later. I think most of them don't realize that even today.
                              We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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                              • #75
                                Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
                                The kids running around the playground calling their friends "******" and "queerboy" as petty childish insults. No one even blinks when they do. If they had been using any other word for any other social group, they'd have been boxed around the ears.


                                When I was a kid, we have people say "Don't be a Jew". It was a generic insult.
                                You might concider it a generic insult - until it is used against someone of the Jewish faith.
                                ____________________________
                                "One day if I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven - I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'" - Herb Caen, 1996
                                "If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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