Your intentions don't matter. You're still using a term that applies to the homosexual community as an insult. If it became widespread among young people to seriously use "white" to mean "pathetic," I have no doubt that you'd start screaming about how racist that is that, jesus, looks like white people really are the oppressed group in this country. So much for "progressives respecting other people," etc. Even if one of those people said, "Hey man, I don't mean it to be a racist." It's easy not to give a shit when it doesn't affect you negatively.
Again, no one here has called you homophobic. You're getting mad about something that hasn't even happened. You use the term gay as an insult, to put someone down. You admitted that you it as a way to call someone stupid. You honestly don't see how someone who identifies themselves as gay would be offended by using that word as a synonym for stupid? BNM
I see how it would which is why I don't use it in front of gay people, you see. There are gays who also use that word in the same way, there are different people out there with different views on words. I don't mean it to harm anybody, it is used in a comical way with close friends away from the public and barely as is, we can agree to disagree. By the way, I think you provide the most quality posts on here when it comes to basketball. Not trying to suck your dick but they are 10/10 posts, would like again
To be fair to Clippy, in context, I'm pretty sure he meant "your kind" as "chickenshit" or some similar sentiment (because he alleged dviss wouldn't fight him one-on-one, but would join a group pile-on) not as a racial thing. Of course, it's pretty ignorant not to see the racial overtones of a turn of phrase like that. And to be clear, I'm not calling dviss chickenshit or anything similar. Just pointing out what I think Clippy meant.
This 1000x. Why is it so hard to understand that perpetuating the use of the word gay in a negative context is offensive - and not just to gay people (but ESPECIALLY to them). BNM
For fucks sake it wasn't racial, you are a professional victim who pulls this bullshit in OT constantly. Here on the forum if you don't agree with us or use words how we want you to, you're a racist homophobic bigot... That's how this is going right now
To be honest words don't really affect me much. I can get called anything, I don't care. It's how it's used that determines the care. If I see a gay person or person of color getting slurs thrown at them, I'm standing up for them no doubt but other than that, I choose to go a different route. I'm not here to virtue signal and try to police people's words and thoughts. That's wrong and personally I think you guys kinda ganging up is wrong but it's whatever at the end of the day you have never me me or know me but if you did your perspective would change
But if you only use it around your non-gay friends and they only use it around their non-gay friends, who only use it around their non-gay friends, etc. you are all guilty of perpetuating the use of the word gay as an insult. At, some point it becomes widespread enough that it becomes common usage. If you want to call your friends stupid, why not call them stupid, or dumb or dip shit or fuck stick, or any of the other hundreds of words or phrases that mean ignorant without being offensive and degrading to an entire segment of the population? BNM
