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   From: exquisitepeach@hotmail.com   
      
   C'Pi wrote:   
   > 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   
   >   
   >   
      
       I don't know where you stand on anything - I just know what you say.   
     Funny thing that, people tend to judge you by what you say.   
      
      You use the word "gay" as a slur, I automatically think you are a   
   jerk.  It works like that.  You get called on it and defend your useage,   
   I REALLY think you are an intolerant pig.   
      
      If you'd like to clarify in some way, I'm here to listen.   
      
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