My issue
My issue with your friend is this.
The word 'faggot' to me is a word I hold much animosity towards. A black person being called the 'n' word, a spanish person a 'spic', an asian a 'chink', etc, are all things that I find discusting. These words hold no intelligence, nor do they even matter. I do no care if you are anti-gay, a LOSER CLOSET CASE, or a homosexual.
I understand people say that its okay to say it if you are gay, but it is not. If gays use this word it make everyone assume it has no meaning, power, or pain. A lot of people out there cannot handle this insult. Gays have nothing to own. Hate crimes are committed to anyone, gay, straight, white, black, male, female. Gays were not ripped from their countries and continents to serve more privaleged people as slaves, were not unable to vote, were not counted as 3/5s of a person, were not forced to use separate schools, restaurants, transportation systems, etc. Gays were not sold as property, separated from siblings and parents, and whipped and beaten daily for centuries. They did not have to escape to the states north of the Mason Dixon from some shred of freedom all due to an uncontrollable difference in skin pigment. They were given a chance from birth due to the fact that there is no physical evidence of homosexuality. So those who say using "fag" as a way of 'owning it', such as black people do with the 'n' word, have no idea what they are talking about. This is why I choose to not tolerate the word faggot. Keep it the fuck away from me.
The word 'faggot' to me is a word I hold much animosity towards. A black person being called the 'n' word, a spanish person a 'spic', an asian a 'chink', etc, are all things that I find discusting. These words hold no intelligence, nor do they even matter. I do no care if you are anti-gay, a LOSER CLOSET CASE, or a homosexual.
I understand people say that its okay to say it if you are gay, but it is not. If gays use this word it make everyone assume it has no meaning, power, or pain. A lot of people out there cannot handle this insult. Gays have nothing to own. Hate crimes are committed to anyone, gay, straight, white, black, male, female. Gays were not ripped from their countries and continents to serve more privaleged people as slaves, were not unable to vote, were not counted as 3/5s of a person, were not forced to use separate schools, restaurants, transportation systems, etc. Gays were not sold as property, separated from siblings and parents, and whipped and beaten daily for centuries. They did not have to escape to the states north of the Mason Dixon from some shred of freedom all due to an uncontrollable difference in skin pigment. They were given a chance from birth due to the fact that there is no physical evidence of homosexuality. So those who say using "fag" as a way of 'owning it', such as black people do with the 'n' word, have no idea what they are talking about. This is why I choose to not tolerate the word faggot. Keep it the fuck away from me.