By fundie logic, shouldn't abortion be a GOOD thing?

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RT, you used the term ‘fundie’ eleven times in a single post.

Are you aware this is a pejorative term that is widely considered derogatory?

I am curious as to whether you know this.

Or whether you care.
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Not really.

‘Fundie’ is quite simply shorthand for ‘fundamentalist.’ I’m not going to type ‘fundamentalist’ a whole bunch of times; I’m going to go for something shorter, but recognizable as having the same meaning, referring to the same group of people.

If ‘fundie’ is inherently derogatory, the problem lies in that which it abbreviates.

Certainly, people use it in a derogatory manner, but for the same reason, coupled with a disdain on their part for fundamentalists. If their chosen term for themselves had been two syllables and six letters, instead of five syllables and fourteen letters, then their chosen term would be thrown around in a derogatory manner.

If ‘African-American’ or ‘homosexual’ is too much trouble to say or type repeatedly, one can use ‘black’ or ‘gay.’ And an equivalent shorthand for ‘fundamentalist’ would be…?

Besides, I’ve rubbed shoulders with fundies for too many years, and have never noticed any antipathy towards the term. Hell, I was one once, though that was a few decades back.

I’m convinced that such public upsetness about the use of ‘fundie’ as there has been is ginned-up outrage, like so much conservative outrage is, rather than anything real. I see no reason to take it seriously.