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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
It depends. I take offence more when someone uses terms like ''nigger'' than when someone uses terms like ''gay''. This is probably because I have heard many people using it in a deliberately offensive manner and because it is intrinsically a strongly offensive and derogatory term. It's a different kettle of fish with labelling things that you don't like as ''gay''; That I find offensive only when it is used by someone who comes across as if they are hiding some latent homophobia and they feel like it is acceptable to call everything gay because it has become normal to do so.
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the word gay has been normalized to mean homosexual in a non-offensive way but yeah then people do run around shouting "that is so gay!" when they dispprove of something which is stupid because really if you think about it it doesn't make much sense. "nigger" really can only appropriately be used in a humorous context or in one such as patti smith's "rock n roll nigger" because patti smith took the term and applied it to a different context so as to mean an outsider, not just a black person.