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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
You'll do more damage to the rednecks when kids start saying, "And?" when they're called "fags" or what-have-you, than when you have adults saying "Gay or not, that's not a very nice thing to say about someone, so take it back." In that way, it's a bit unlike the N-word.
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well, the greeting "fag" is often an introduction to a beating so saying "and" to "fag" is actually harder today than saying it to the "n" word. * there was a day when being called a "dago" was fighting time, but that has gone away and most i-ties can now say "and" and we are certainly better off for not needing to fight over it. black people woill be better off when the user of the other is simply seen as ignorant, or a rapper, and not threatening (except in the case of a rapper).
on the "creative" name thing, one of the very few things we should take from the french is the rule that only certain approved names are available. it just takes to much from society to have to learn to pronounce names that differ slightly from normal names just because the parents couldn't spell, or thought it cute. Actually, a spell check at the birth registry, "did you mean Duane?", might be in order.
* actually "fag" isn't the scary one, "faggot", the more formal, is the typical salutation of the true gaybasher.
