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Where does it end? Allowing anyone with a claim to offense at any derogatory language that is not directed at them? There will be nothing left to use.
More prescient, the Public will reject us if we do as such, and the fascists will take advantage and take our ground. They already have, it's partly why we LOST.
No one agrees with this bullshit, this is what animates people to vote republican.
I suspect that people who throw around gay jokes as hard as you are doing right now, just may think that being gay IS an insult, but ya'll know that on Lemmy it wouldn't be taken well.
It's the same level as the R-word. People don't take that well these days, and with good reason.
Or ya know, you can just try not to insult people, even if you don't like them. You can just say you don't like them because you don't agree what they stand for. That way you are clear, and the only one who can reasonably be offended is the person you are making the remark about. It's not high school anymore.
Society grows and words and phrases change meaning over time. What was a funny insult when you were in high school, isn't funny anymore. I sincerely hope that you can be wiser with your words and intent in the future. You're not making a good case for yourself with these replies.
Well, let me use the very favorite expression of Lemmy. "If ya let nazis into a bar..."
Are you saying that the sucking of dicks is a degrading act? Are you saying you want fewer dicks sucked? Because that's gonna be a non-starter for me. The best people I know suck dicks, and I really don't appreciate you associating them with that useless fuck.
Nothing left to use? Seriously? We're inventing new words by the minute.
If this issue is what's going to drive you to Republicanism, I'd say you're already there.
Exactly. No rational person is going to be pushed into being a republican because someone told them that implying someone is gay is an insult anymore.
If pointing that out is all it takes to make them want to be a republican, then they are already a republican. lol