"That's so gay" - enough to get twelve-year-olds suspended

[Stefu]

12 Year Old Suspended For Anti-Gay Remark



Next they'll be banning people at Poly for using that "This thread is gay" Richard Simmons picture. No, wait, better not give them ideas...

[St Leo]

It's about time they started cracking down that.

[Az]

Hey that link is empty! I sense a setup to get me into a gay site.

[Ben Kenobi]

Paging Dr. Simmons, paging Dr. Simmons

[Stefu]

Hey that link is empty! I sense a setup to get me into a gay site.

Works fine for me!

[Inverse Icarus]

yea, in my highschool they started punishing people for that

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by St Leo
It's about time they started cracking down that.

Actually, I think so too.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by UberKruX
yea, in my highschool they started punishing people for that

Would schools accept insulting things you didn't like by referring to them as ethnic groups?

"That's so black"...

I don't know if suspension is indicated in either situation, but it should definitely be treated equally...

[Az]

nothing. Just a small link on the top left corner for a Barbara Streisand CD sale.

[Boris Godunov]

So is saying to a stingy person "don't be such a Jew" not offensive, because the person saying it might not actually intend it to refer to Jewish people?

[loinburger]

They suspended him for that? Dude, that's so gay!

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
So is saying to a stingy person "don't be such a Jew" not offensive, because the person saying it might not actually intend it to refer to Jewish people?

Remember Boris? The conservative backlash dictates that to find anything offensive, means that you're a PC fanatic.

[General Ludd]

I don't agree with censorship, but I certainly wouldn't mind hearing that phrase less.

Of course, school environments are rife with censorship anyways.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
So is saying to a stingy person "don't be such a Jew" not offensive, because the person saying it might not actually intend it to refer to Jewish people?

I've actually noticed "jew" is replacing "gay" in some, ehm, 'communities' such as Counter-Strike.

[loinburger]

I remember seeing the term "Jewry" somewhere or another, probably one of those boring-ass 19th century British novels they made me pretend to read in high school.

I still use the term "gyp." I didn't know its derivation until just a coupla years ago, and by then the term was pretty well ingrained into my lexicon.