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Originally Posted by EtH
It's a rap website. No one's butt hurt if you call someone a faggot. But trying to say "Oh I should be allowed to call people faggots all the time because language has evolved and blah blah blah" is embarrassing. You gonna claim you should be able to say the n word as people often say it in an inoffensive way and language has evolved?
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Yes, bitch.
"bitch" has evolved.
and yes, people should be able to talk shit and call each other whatever they want when they clown or express anger.
People use to get mad and say, "that's gay". Maybe they're playing a game and lose and yell "fuck, that's gay!". They're obviously, not claiming the game is a male fucking another male. Gay would have meant lame or stupid or something similar when used in that context. Therefore, cancelling out the negative connotation associated with it being a homophobic slur. But if that said group, takes the word, alters its meaning and then says no one else is allowed to use it, it causes vernacular stagnation and forces the word to remain derogatory. Whereas the words original definition had nothing to do with one's sexual preference but was rather co-opted.
You're grasping at straws to assume a morally superior disposition when you're obviously anything but a moral person in regard to how you actually carry yourself day to day.
You're the type to wish you could help someone 5,000 miles away and rant online about it but do absolutely nothing in your own back yard. Because, ranting about a problem you could have little effect on dissolves you of responsibility. When you could step out your front door and make a change and lose weight doing it.