First of all let me say, this isn't meant to be a hate thread. I have no problem with gays, black people, whatever, as people, and I have both gay and black friends and indians and arabs and all of it . What I do think is absolutely silly is when people get offended over the use of the word nigger or faggot in and of themselves. To me it seems like when people use the word faggot to mean dickhead or uncool or whatever, that is in fact the message they're communicating, and the meaning of homosexual doesn't even come into it. And that people who read into it a meaning of gay people are bad are putting words in the mouth of the speaker. Yes, using both tends to make the person using them sound dumb , but I think that has more to do with the fact that they're both associated with young people than any hidden agenda in the words. As a Catholic, I can assure you, I've heard atheists levy the word Christian at me with far, far more hate than I've heard most people say, oh, that's so gay, and my attitude when that happens is, Oh well, I guess this person doesn't like me. Meh. Reddit, change my view Edit To be clear, the two central points here are 1 99 of the time these words are used, they're not meant to convey hate or an intent to offend 2 In the 1 that they are used to convey an intent to offend or hurt, the best response is to accept that some people will never like you or the things you do, and go, okay.
I believe that people who are personally offended by bigoted words in and of themselves need to get over it and are just being whiny. !