Ann Coulter's F Bomb

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Coulter responds:
Coulter Doesn't Get It, Pt 1 (Hannity & Colmes via YouTube)
Coulter Doesn't Get It, Pt 2 (Hannity & Colmes via YouTube)

I respond:
No Ms. Coulter, the word "faggot" is not just a schoolyard taunt. It does imply the person to whom it's being directed is not only gay, but sub-human. And yes, it is very offensive to gays. What makes you think you're even remotely qualified to determine what gays find offensive? "Faggot" is equivalent to a racial slur. Gays most definitely have been and continue to be legally discriminated against.

When you say "we're against gay marriage" and they in the very next sentence say, "I don't want gays to be discriminated against" you are contradicting yourself.

You also said, "I think we [Republicans] have the pro-gay position..." Are you kidding me? Did you really just say that? Did you even think about those words? Really??? The GOP does not need any help from the Liberally-biased media in describing Republicans--you folks do a fine job of that all by yourselves.

[Alex]

While I can't remember ever using the word (other than in a self referential way), it is a bit of a fuzzy line since "fag" seems to have taken up a cozy place in mostly non-offensive slang vocabulary. I don't know that adding "got" makes it a whole lot more offensive.

But as with so many things, offense is in the eye of the beholder.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

No Ms. Coulter, the word "faggot" is not just a schoolyard taunt. It does imply the person to whom it's being directed is not only gay, but sub-human.

It's even more insidious than that. Because she's right, she didn't mean to imply that he was homosexual. She meant to imply that he's "bad". So by using "faggot" what she's really saying is, "Hey, we all agree that faggots are bad, right? Well, then I'm going to call this guy a faggot and, since we're all in agreement that faggots are bad, then you'll all understand that I'm saying he's bad."

Lovely.