Re: Willow Palin's homophobic Facebook rant

>The problem is...when you (generic) use a word like retarded or faggot?  You ARE insulting those groups-intended or not.  Why do people struggle against this fact so much?  Why are their insults so damn precious?<
Why are their feelings so precious that they insist on taking offense where none is intended?  


>If you (again, generic, presume generic for erst of e-mail) call some guy retarded-whether you realize it or not?  You are comparing him to a person with downs syndrome.  And you are saying it is a bad thing.  And as it is only used for insult, there is no balance.  Yeah, i realize you don't probably think people with downs syndrome are "bad", but you are still using a term that specifically is tied to them purely as insult.  Same with Faggot or gay or whatever.  This idea that it doesn't matter because it wasn't my intention?  My words may have unintended victims.  That matters to me.  My intensions do not absolved me of blame.<

So who gets to be the language police?  Folks seriously need to get a life.  It is none of their business how I choose to address people unless I’m addressing them.  

Mike F.

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