Lisa Wrote:Oh brother. For the record, I am not "dismissing" anyone's apology in a personal sense. I feel that in this case the apology is not the important thing. The important thing is that others understand WHY people got offended. That is separate from simply knowing that people WERE offended. So far we've been mostly seeing the latter, which is why I attempted to explain with examples.
Lisa
thisisatest Wrote:Steve D
And they call each other "queer" and "lesbo" all the time. I'm referred to as "the straight" not "straight" but "the straight". I asked about the term "lesbo" to gather what their take on it was and was answered, "Well, that's what we are."
Lisa Wrote:"I didn't know Margaret Cho was supposed to be funny. I just thought that she was a televised chink."
Lisa
Keith the Elder Wrote:....
"... with the bigotry, it's not so much the hate as the stupidity"
Marc B. Wrote:I have several black friends that have no problem calling each other "nigger". I have several gay friends that call each other "fag" or "queer" or "queen". But if I ever called any of them anything along those lines I'd be blacklisted and would probably have my ass kicked.
I'm not saying it's fair or right or equal, but considering the mentality of our country (and I'm speaking of America now) common courtesy is you don't call people derogatory names unless you are a person of the same color, sexual preference, whatever. Period.
But I'm from the midwest, so what do I know?