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⌈ Secret Post #1870 ⌋

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lol you've never been to /b/ have you

not agreeing with you =/= not knowing what i'm talking about

I give not two shits for what /b/tards think they're doing when they call each other faggot. The secretmaker is drowning in kittens over the idea that using -fag all the time removes the negative connotations attached to the word, and I'm pointing out how that's bullshit.

you're pointing out how you think it's bullshit; people are disagreeing with you

what you think =/= the truth

Actually, people are attempting to dismiss my point by derailing. ...That would be the part where you ignored what I said and >implied I didn't know anything about the site in question, in case you're having trouble following along.

lol how you said people like you think I'm the anon you originally replied to, which I'm not by the way.

It really is beside the point. You see fag as an offensive word. I don't. End of, really.

You sound very young.

Nope, try again.

However wise and world-weary you may imagine yourself, kiddo, if you honestly believe that slurs can be erased by a group of man-children fapping over futa, you're still very very young.

Oh how I laughed. Kiddo? How wonderfully young you make me feel! Sorry to burst your perilously narrow bubble my dear anon, but I am no kiddo; haven't been for a number of years, in fact.

The assumption that I must be young because I do not find a word offensive is, quite frankly, laughable.

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(Anonymous) - 2012-02-16 02:59 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2012-02-16 07:30 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2012-02-16 09:18 (UTC) - Expand

DA. You just demonstrated how a traditionally polite and unoffensive word - young - can be used as an insult. Youngsters today learn early on that it is unacceptable to discriminate or bash others based on their sexual orientation or identity. The bashing should be condemned. However, languages evolve. The usage of words change over time, and "fag" is just one example of this phenomenon. Individual words are neutral. It's the idea you convey that matters. Keep up with the times and stop drawing a line between "good" and "bad" words.

You sound like your using the same tactic - Derailing - That you were just complaining about.

"you dont agree with me, it's probably because your too young to know any better"

Wait wait wait.

I will concede to the fact that some people may use it in a positive way.

But you CANNOT say that is is not at all an offensive word. It can certainly easily be used offensively, and most of the time it is used, it is.

Some people are never going to be able to hear it without being offended. And right now, I would be that is the majority of people who it could be used against/has been used against (since it's not just gay men who get it thrown at them). Until most of the people who would be genuinely hurt by it being used, or genuinely offended, then you cannot say that it is not an offensive word, even if it is starting to be used positively by some.

tl;dr Words can mean multiple things. Being one thing doesn't rule out the other. And you really need to take into consideration with this particular word? That it is still being used to hurt people. It ~~is offensive~~ pisses me the fuck off to me that you say it is not an offensive word.

Edited 2012-02-16 03:06 (UTC)

My apologies, I should clarify. I do not find the word offensive, but that's not to say that I don't realise that other people do and I do not use the word in everyday conversation.

But with regard to the secret, I see no reason why I should not use it in a place where it has entirely different context. Really, anyone going to /b/ without foreknowledge of what it is like is probably going to be offended by everything, not just the use of one particular term.

So while you were pointing out how bad a homophobic slur was...

You used an ableist one.

How is using "fag" worse that using "tard"?

DA

Why am I not surprised that there's no reply to this? Ableism is a-ok.

Uh, except it's not? Every single time I've seen the term used and/or explained, "/b/tard" (which, btw, is the universally accepted term for people who use 4chan's /b/ channel) is supposed to be short for "bastard", not "/b/-retard".

EPIC LOL NO! Wtf are you smoking?

What the hell? Hahah, are you serious? God, no.

I was going to point this out, thank you mouse!

BAS-tard, not re-tard.

no

/b/tard = bee-tard = retard

you fail

kthnxbai

actually, he's right, it IS bastard. /b/tard as in /b/astard, not /b/tard as in /b/-retard.

your idea that a rhyming scheme is indicative of it meaning "retard" does not trump /b/tard LITERALLY BEING THE WORD BASTARD minus two letters.

If it were bastard it'd be /b/astard.

Why am I getting involved in this?

You are not seriously putting retard on the same level as faggot.

you know that /b/tard comes from retard right?

retard.