They're all just that - words. And no on person or group has any more right to speak them than another. They say it, so will I. If they don't like being called such terms, then things begin with them starting the cessation first.
I call a queer a queer because that's what they call one another. I call a nigger a nigger because that's what they call one another. That's not to say that I don't refer to the majority as black folks, but those folks don't use the term.
Being a queer doesn't give you one bit of a right more than I to speak the term.
I have a sneaky suspicion that we'll be hearing these terms for decades to come, as the queers and niggers WANT to be called these names, and WANT to start controversy when someone else uses it. Tough shit on them!
“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?” - Chris Rock
i prefer ass bandit, clam slapper and spear chucker.......
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
~Albert Camus
If you attack the Clintons publically make sure all your friends know your not planning on commiting suicide ~ McCain 2008
Happiness is Obama's picture on the back of a milk carton.
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
~Albert Camus
Fag is from faggot right? That's one that really didn't cross the Atlantic Ocean.
In the UK a "fag" is a couple of things.
1. A slang name for a cigarette and 2. At Eton College - a public school (which means it's a private school and extremely exclusive) a "fag" is a newbie kid who is supposed to do chores for the senior students in the college. You can hear the older blokes in their dormitory buildings yelling "fag!" and a newbie kid comes zipping down the corridor ready to do the senior's bidding.
I can see a Brit walking into a shop in San Francisco and asking for "a packet of fags please"....
"Unbloodybreakable" DCI Gene Hunt, 2008
A "faggot" also has a different meaning... from Merriam-Webster's site
Main Entry: fag·ot
Variant(s): or fag·got /<TT>'fa-g&t</TT>/
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English fagot, from Anglo-French
BUNDLE: as a : a bundle of sticks b : a bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be shaped by rolling or hammering at high temperature
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. - Ronald Reagan
My feeling is if you're using the word queer or fag or homo or whatever with intent to insult, that's unfortunate. But if a gay guy calls another queer, I should be able to do the same without offending.
God bless America, but she stole the "b" from bless.