Political censorship? Seriously?
Does the tin foil hurt when they staple it to your head or does your soft scalp make the process painless?
Ah, insults and aspersions cast, the last refuge of the scoundrel…and the desperate.
Seriously though, how are these ads “political censorship?” What does that even mean?
By anybody’s standards this is a gay tie. And I’m glad I can say it without being labeled a bigot. It’s purely, politically motivated.
No, it isn’t. It’s silly and colorful, but that’s not the same thing. Also, you’re being ridiculous.
Out of curiosity, how do you feel about using “Jew” as a verb? As in, “He wanted a hundred bucks for it, but I was able to Jew him down to seventy-five.”
I think it is a colloquial expression.
… and a bad example, gay is a prior adjective.
I never heard that until I was an adult, but I did grow up using “gyp” meaning “to cheat (in a transaction), to rip off.” I did not realize it derived from Gypsy, and when I learned I was kind of annoyed. “Why should I stop using a perfectly good word,” I thought, “just because it might offend somebody I don’t have a particular opinion about, who is statistically irrelevant anyway?” And then I thought, “Why should I continue my language’s ingrained prejudices just because I’m too lazy to rephrase a sentence?” I’ve dropped the word from my active vocabulary.
I don’t think that we should automatically purge our vocabularies of every potentially offensive word, mind you. It’s the sort of thing individuals should do on a case-by-case basis. It’s a PSA, not an emergency broadcast. And if devilsknew wants to keep using the expression, fully cognizant of the fact that it is a tiny little linguistic aid to homophobia, that’s up to him (her?). He (she?) may think that the benefit of such a useful and well-established phrase outweighs the broader societal cost. I’d much rather hear “that’s so gay” than “don’t get all butthurt about it.”
Well, yes. How is that significant?
Same question.
Which now makes three questions in your court: the original one I asked, and the two that have been raised by your evasive responses.
I’ve heard people use this. Some people are using it ironically, but not all. Typically I will clear my throat and glare.
I hate hate hate it. I’ve actually put the verbal smack down on a few coworkers who use this. I’m not usually very confrontational.
For all intents and purposes I am ok with “gay” being used that way, but “jewing” somebody down to something, or saying “that’s jewish” just gets me. When I was an RA I had a resident that I had to constantly listen to and make sure he didn’t say that, he did all of the time.
I don’t really see a discernible difference between the two, gay and jew, but the latter seems to irk me more.
I’m 35, and I still find it leaps to my lips from time to time. Usually I manage to tamp it back down and replace it with something much less objectionable – like “retarded.”
ATTENTION POSTERS: Henceforth the word devilsknew shall be colloquially used as a synonym for dickweed. I’m sure he’ll be cool with it.
–Cliffy
Is this a joke?