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   peachy ashie passion wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   There's a very good chance I'm on the same side of the line as you.  Not   
   that you would know, since you obviously wouldn't take the time to find out   
   what I think before pronouncing where I stand.  People with issues to work   
   out are usually like that.   
      
   C'Pi   
      
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