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   From: wdstarr@panix.com   
      
   In article <466d7119$0$97234$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net>,   
   "C'Pi"  said:   
      
   > Merrick Baldelli wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Again, sounds like it's all your baggage and not mine.  Something   
   > you have to work to work out, not me.   
      
   You're tapdancing *awfully* close to the "Hey, if my acting like a   
   jerk bothers you, then clearly you're the one with the problem" line   
   here, I think.   
      
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