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fightthegoodfightnow

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3. Agree
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 02:22 PM
Nov 2012

I agree. Unfortunately, others do not.

This was my last post in another group I was subsequently blocked from for using the word:

Maybe I have a different take on speech and words. I think the solution to bad speech is more speech .....not less. If the response is 'so what'...tell them why.....educate the ignorant. I always attempt to be fair and objective when being on a jury....but i give people the benefit of the doubt. We will never be able to talk about racism, sexism or homophobia without even ignorant people being able to talk through their own insecurities. The language of oppression has often been turned against our oppressors......so some of us now neuter words like QUEER or HOMO.


I welcome that conversation here.

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