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Message: [QUOTE="Mistakebythelake90, post: 609115, member: 721"] And yet you want to talk about false equivalence. No one is saying that Slavery=Homosexuality. No one is saying that Nword=wimp. Frankly, it is this sort of ambivalence to the word that is the most damning argument against it at all. "Oh, Mike Rice didn't mean to call his players gay, he was just looking for an insult to use at them." Of course he wasn't literally saying that his players were looking to have sexual relations with another male. But none the less, he picked a word that is insulting to people. It is hurtful exactly because people use it as a casual insult, and then people like you get upset when others take offense to it. [/QUOTE]