I`m sad he quits the job as producer at the OSCARs
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Thetruthisinhere — 13 years ago(February 24, 2013 05:19 AM)
it is not ''wrong'' by any law. You are confused,wrong and right do not exist,for they are subjective. You meant ''legal'' and illegal .illegal and ''wrong'' are definitely not synonyms. All the criminals,and there are half a country filled with criminals,because every second person has walked on a red light at least once in their life or broken some law in society. They do not consider themselves wrong,lol,nor does the law state them as ''wrong''. the law says ''illegal''. I walk on the red light often enough and break other society laws as well all the time,people I know do it as well nor consider it wrong.Though we all know it is ''illegal'' haha,but not wrong.
wow,NYC must be real prudes to go as far as illegalizing a word.Soon enough they might strip you of all freedom of speech to the point where you lose all your rights if you let them,under the disguise of ''safety'' and political correctness. As your president once said ''Those who give up a bit of freedom for a bit of safety deserve neither and will lose both'' - this man was self-righteous about the ''deserve'',yet spot on otherwise.
hate-speech and degradation on purpose of minorities,like blacks,latinos,transvestites,gays,even women etc should be regulated as far as reporting the person if you want to etc,but if someone just uses curse words like ''fag'' towards another straight guy knowing he is straight. It is a jab insult,the modern day meaning also referencing ''that is so gay dude'' -meaning that is something of a stereotype that a gay would knw/do,for ex buy some tight colorful clothes(a stereotype,yet poignant to insult a straight guy,implying he likes colorful tight clothes)
Point being,if someone directs the insult fag towards someone who is not gay,then it is not a hate-crime towards you as a minority,because you ain't that minority. If you just get your ego hurt,then that alone is hardly a ''crime''. The word used towards a gay man in a belittling way is a bit of a different story,obviously,not superficial as it is towards a straight guy.
as for Negro (n e g r o ),it is literally latin for ''black''. NEGRO means BLACK,literally.It is still used worldwide,especially in Russia and former USSR countries as a description much like the word ''black'',especially since for ex my country has maybe a couple of hundred black men living here,so to differentiate someone quickly for the sake of clarity in a conversation,one just says ''that cool negro guy Suzy was with the other day,along with 3 of her friends and 2 of his friends'' - then right away everyone knows who you mean. Rarely do they use word black,because it is a much longer word to pronounce in russian or estonian,they use negro(neeger, negar-russian). Now the word beep is a SLANT,and is used primarily only in North America as a racist inferiority insult. the word negro however,neveda0r was and is not an insult word,except maybe clueless people in America who don't even know what the word means and that it is not the word beep -
puirt-a-beul — 14 years ago(November 09, 2011 08:00 PM)
When did it become so wrong to say the word "fag?" Honestly, it's a simple insult, and gay people get WAY too defensive about it.
Sheesh, Genose, think for a minute.
It's not just a "simple" insult. Supposing it was a word that summed up something about you? Let's say, from your screen name, "wop". (You may not be - I'm just using that as an example.) Now suppose the name, like "fag", summed up an attitude that said you were not normal, not competent, not how you "should" be; that you deserved to be fired from your job, ridiculed in the street, even bashed and killed just because someone else saw you as a "wop", and that most people around you took a "serves you right" attitude about it, the law made it OK for them to do so, and the police openly laughed at your attempts to even make a complaint about it
Can you honestly not see that it's far more than a "simple insult"?
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Myth-and-Mayhem — 14 years ago(November 09, 2011 06:06 PM)
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-Spaceballs
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rod775-1 — 14 years ago(November 11, 2011 08:53 PM)
He looks and acts like a very nerd-queen. I always thought he was one of those closeted queens who speaks unkindly of other gays just to deflect gay-dar from himself. Just look at that mug. That is one Jewish Queen if I ever saw one. No matter what he says about bedding women..