RichmondCuse
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Let me know when gay people are made slaves in this country for a couple hundred years, and then you might have a case. In the meantime, gay "slurs" don't come anywhere near the hate level that black people have endured in this country for generations. I'm not saying there isn't violence against gays, there obviously is. I saw Torch Song Trilogy, and Brokeback Mountain. Those kinds of stories are too real.
Like I said earlier in this post, I have probably half a dozen gay friends who I met through my wife who, like me, are around 50 years old. And I'm sure that none of them are as worked up about Mike Rice as some of you guys are. They are more concerned with things like equal rights, and ACTUAL gay bashing and gay-directed hate speech. Mike Rice's actions had NOTHING AT ALL to do with actual gay people, and whether he actually thought any of his players were gay.
And to finish the comparison, NO ONE AT ALL calls people "niggers" in the way that people use faggot, puszy and wimp, etc., or with similar meaning.
This will be my last response in this thread, because I doubt you or anyone of a similar viewpoint will ever change your mind. But, to try and explain this as simply as possible. When you call a non-gay person "gay" or a "faggot" you are implying that they are "like" a gay person (ie not manly, etc.). So by using the word, you're offending gay people.
It would be like, if you had xyz qualities that others found undesirable - and so any time they met someone like you, they said "Wow, you're a real IthacaMatt". I know this is extreme, but just imagine that example. If everyone around the world used that to describe someone else they thought shared your "flaws", you'd be offended and you'd have every right to be.
So, my point is - calling a non-gay person a "faggot" is still offensive to gay people.