This is so gay...

[Drake Tungsten]

http://www.thinkb4youspeak.com/TheCampaign/

You can't stop the evolution of language, especially not with gay little ad campaigns.

[Jon Miller]

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/8/17/

Jm

[Asher]

It's a serious problem, but I don't see the campaign helping. See the Penny Arcade comic.

People are stupid, people are mean, and I tried but they just won't ban people for being stupid. It's a metaphor for life, or something.

[Guynemer]

Oh, you don't know the half of it, Asher. The Poly Fantasy Football Draft has been affected by the plague you have fought so valiantly against.

[Drake Tungsten]

It's a serious problem

No, it's not.

[chequita guevara]

I've been busting people's balls for it for over a decade. Dumb****s don't give a ****. They see no problem with using some group's name as an insult. If they don't care about others, you can't stop them from being jerks.

It seems to me that, in general, America is a lot ruder and a lot more assholish than it was twenty years ago. I know, I know, I'm sounding like my parents and grandparents. Maybe they were right.

[Lorizael]

Drake, I assume there are certain words you believe are exempt from the unstoppable "evolution of language?"

[Asher]

Oh, you don't know the half of it, Asher. The Poly Fantasy Football Draft has been affected by the plague you have fought so valiantly against.

I fight against so many plagues. Is it general stupidity, or is it just somebody taking their sweet-ass time to make a pick?

That sends me through the roof.

[Asher]

It's a serious problem

No, it's not.

I'm not sure if it's a symptom of societal homophobia or one of the subtle causes of it. Either way, it's not good for society in general to use minority groups as an insult.

[Drake Tungsten]

Drake, I assume there are certain words you believe are exempt from the unstoppable "evolution of language?"

No. You assume wrongly.

it's not good for society in general to use minority groups as an insult.

That's a lot different than calling it a "serious problem".

[Lorizael]

No. You assume wrongly.

Then we are free to use the word ****** in non-racist ways?

[Drake Tungsten]

If that's the way the language evolves, then yes. It hasn't evolved that way in the case of the n-word, though. You're welcome to go to Harlem and try to get the ball rolling.

[Guynemer]

I fight against so many plagues. Is it general stupidity, or is it just somebody taking their sweet-ass time to make a pick?

That sends me through the roof.

Neither. It is way, way, WAY beyond "general" stupidity.

[Asher]

Neither. It is way, way, WAY beyond "general" stupidity.

Which thread? The IDP League Draft thread?

I leave the football threads alone usually because I'm worried NFL fans will kick my ass for not paying attention to their sport.

[Lorizael]

If that's the way the language evolves, then yes. It hasn't evolved that way in the case of the n-word, though. You're welcome to go to Harlem and try to get the ball rolling.

I applaud your technical consistency but it would be nice if you practiced it throughout the forum.