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12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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Asher is completely right. I just don't care. Words only mean what those who hear them want them to mean. If gay people choose not to be offended by the word anymore, then it is no longer offensive.
That's easier said than done, of course, but it has been done before.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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What a Dago attitude.
12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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I too have to agree with Asher on this one.
I am a gay man and if by using the word "gay" to mean rubbish or something unwanted ... does that not directly corrolate back to me being "rubbish" or "unwanted" as a gay man?
There is a definately a "slippery-slope" syndrome involved here. I'm just surprised that everyone can't see it.____________________________
"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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But why should you want to be offended by something that is not intended to be offensive?
While the word itself very obviously has the correlation it has, the person speaking the word, and the person's intent behind the word, don't necessarily have any negative connotation.
It defeats the point of communication to, when someone says something that is not intended to be offensive, interpret it as offensive.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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Language evolves in a funny way. Sometimes things that are initially offensive become desensitised and even accepted as common usage over time.Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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I like how the BBC vindicates people when it's convenient, and is rubbish every other time, particularly in things like news reporting.B♭3Comment
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All them sand-******s in the Middle East are retarded.
Nothing wrong with that slur, right?A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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That expression has never been desensitised and moved into proper usage
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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I don't know why I am bothering though, I never use the expression. But I don't find it offensive, but then again, that shouldn't be a surprise
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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For me, someone using the word "gay" in a deragatory manner is not a desensitised form of use of that word.
People who use the word "gay" to denigrate something or someone is either consciously homophobic, or they are simply clueless and lack perceptive thinking skills.
And those who call me a PC Nazi for this can **** off. Now it seems like no one can find anything offensive with anything, less you want to be called a PC Nazi.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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You don't have the monopoly on the word 'gay' you know
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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And blacks don't have the monopoly on the word "******."
So what is your point?A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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It is indeed irritating, having to agree with Asher.
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The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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Using the term "sand-******" specifically to insult those of the Arab persuasion is obviously insulting, because it is intended to be insulting.Originally posted by MrFun
All them sand-******s in the Middle East are retarded.
Nothing wrong with that slur, right?Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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