Originally posted by dani_california
no the n words obviously more offensive but who knows in ten years f@g might considered just as terrible to say
Uh...who are you to say this? How would u know what's more offensive?
"Gangstaz" on television, hoodlums in gangs, kids on the street call eachother "n*gga" like nothing all the time.
The word "F*g" is used all the time as an insult, never as a freindly assossiate term.
How do you figure one is more offensive than the other ?
Originally posted by Alliance
Does anyone consider the use of the word "f@g" to be of equal offensivity with terms like the "n-word" and "w37b@ck"?
Originally posted by Lord Urizen
Uh...who are you to say this? How would u know what's more offensive?"Gangstaz" on television, hoodlums in gangs, kids on the street call eachother "n*gga" like nothing all the time.
The word "F*g" is used all the time as an insult, never as a freindly assossiate term.
How do you figure one is more offensive than the other ?
F@g is offensive but the n word is worse. yes, gay people face persecution but you know the whole slave trade and jim crow segregation shit? That was a lot worse
Originally posted by dani_california
F@g is offensive but the n word is worse. yes, gay people face persecution but you know the whole slave trade and jim crow segregation shit? That was a lot worse
Originally posted by Eis
I always said to my boyfriend "You're such a fa.ggot" just teasing obviously and if other people use it as a joke term I don't mind either... But if someone used it as an insult I'd kick his ass.
I do that too.
Much like the expression "That's so gay", I'm not offended at all. When I first came out, my straight friends would say "That's so gay" or "You're so gay" and then they'd realize what they said and turn red in the face, and I'd have to reassure them that I didn't care or had been offended. Eventually they stopped saying it, simply because they no longer considered it an insult...not because I chastised them for saying it.
What?
Whats sick to me is that everyone remembers the 6 million jews that were executed in the holocost, but arpitrarily neglect the the other 6 million people that hitler killed for various reasons.
Originally posted by Lord UrizenI think he is saying it could become such.
How do you figure one is more offensive than the other ?
I agree with storm. Imo, they're both equally offensive. I don't like when they're used as friendly terms either. i think that wrongly dulls the edge of a very sharp-edged word.
Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
I do that too.Much like the expression "That's so gay", I'm not offended at all. When I first came out, my straight friends would say "That's so gay" or "You're so gay" and then they'd realize what they said and turn red in the face, and I'd have to reassure them that I didn't care or had been offended. Eventually they stopped saying it, simply because they no longer considered it an insult...not because I chastised them for saying it.
I agree with storm. Imo, they're both equally offensive. I don't like when they're used as friendly terms either. i think that wrongly dulls the edge of a very sharp-edged word.
But that only keeps an eye on the end-game. I know way too many people who use them as insulting words.
There was just an example of a hate crime attack. The kid beat black man with a baseball bat screaming the n-word, but his defense is using the cultural pervasiveness of the n-word to say that the kid's use of the n-word does not imply a hate crime.
<ahem> people like "calvs" aren't entitle to ther opinions about homosexuals because:1. It is wrong.
2. It is hurtful.
3. I need debate.
Thus you are saying I am not entitled to an opinion as a human being and a citizen of a free country, thus putting homosexuals above the average man and promoting segregation, biogtry, and in-equality among other things.