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   From: exquisitepeach@hotmail.com   
      
   William December Starr wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
      
      
      He may be tapdancing, but I'd say he's way on the other side of that   
   line.   
      
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