A Prop 8 challenge for swankers

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

Steve, you need to edit the offending line from your post. I don't really care if you feel justified in your anger or not. Fix it.

I'd love to, but that's not within my power. This is RICH coming from you. When I edited my offensive line in the past ... and did it with a joke ... you had a hissy fit and demanded that I be fired as a moderator.

So I was ... and now don't have the ability to edit my posts hours later.

Please feel free to ask a mod to edit it. I will support that request.

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

...with the exception of "faggot," there is no word or epithet that can be hurled at a white person that has anything like the hatred of the word you used.

Well, we happen to disagree. I guess I have to go with societal norms, but I happen to personally and absolutely truly feel that blacks have been enormously successful at NULLIFYING the evil power of the "N" word by using it affectionately among themselves ... showing us all that a word is just a word, and the meaning and power is what we make of it.

I think it's absurd that they have achieved this fantastic thing with the "N" word ... but only blacks can utter it.


I constantly use FAGGOT for the same reason. Affectionately among my gay friends. I hope some day that everyone can use the formerly-disgusting word because we gays will have made it HARMLESS. And until everyone can use it, and not just gays, we have not achieved that goal.

I use the "N" word as my inspiration. Yeah, I still won't say it. I regret using it in my post. But I look forward to the day when the quest for it to lose all derogatory power will have been achieved, and that day won't come till it's usuable by whites as well as blacks, and is not a filtered word here on the LoT.



Still .... it was inappropriate to use it. My disgust for black people who voted for Obama with one hand while taking away my civil rights with the other remains. But just as it was not right for Latinos to spit on gays and call them faggot on Election Day ... and it was not right for me to use the "N" word in my ranting post.


I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Feel free to ask a mod to delete it.