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From: exquisitepeach@hotmail.com
Merrick Baldelli wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:15:18 +0800, "C'Pi" wrote:
>
>
>>>>Maybe he thought it was a good time to drop the dapper gay
>>>>politician look.
>>>
>>>Excuse me, what is it with you kids and thinking that
>>>well-manicured = gay. Am I going to have to naturally assume that you
>>>kids all live in your parents basements? No, I don't think so. Move
>>>along now... And in the future hink carefully on this whole "gay
>>>look" think before throwing it out there and wonder why all of a
>>>sudden you're looking at a jihad that you could've sworn you didn't
>>>start.
>>
>>Wow, you certainly got some issues you need to work out.
>
>
> Wow... you think those issues? You have *no* idea do you...
> I'm going to safely wager you're a young 20's if that. Allow me then
> to educate you as a 40-something that's seen that word used entirely
> too much.
>
> Swap out the word Gay for Nigger, Spic, Gook, Towel-head or
> some other colorful racial slurs that you can possibly think of and
> see how that sentence reads when you insert those words. The use of
> the word GAY there is connoting a snide and derogatory meaning, one
> that I don't appreciate...
> Gay isn't the N-word of the 21st century, and having been
> fighting for LGBT rights longer than you've most probably been alive,
> I would appreciate it if semi-educated to uneducated folk such as
> yourself who think it's no big deal realize that the use of the word
> "gay" as you're using here carries all the same burdens and social
> misconceptions as using the N-word 50 years ago.
>
Nicely said, thank you.
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life" then our way of life has already been lost.
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