Why?

What ?

well I agree

Why so many people are concerned with what others are doing with their genitalia? Any port in a storm 😆

the fact that half the people in this forum just descend into insult is kinda sad about the state of conversation today. it's like nobody ever comes in contact with people who have a opposing opinion.

itt

the latest internet slang

itt = inch tall troll

ok boomer

A lot of my friends have kids that age. If any one of them used "gay" as a term of abuse in my house I would not need to throw them out. Their parents would be in there before me to throw them out.

I suppose you think its ok to use the N word too do you ?

Lefties kind of don't.

It's about grandstanding in a safespace to get props from other braindead sheep. Wouldn't make a big deal of someone saying a funny word in real life, or at least I have not ever seen it.

Think the British Broadcasting Corporation actually did an investigation into this when a DJ used the term "lame and gay" and some lefty snowflake got upset. It was found to be acceptable use of English language.

I can assure you that people use the term jokingly. Stop being so insecure. Stop trying to sanitize the culture until everyone is dead and listening to cold play and adele.

Is that only when it's in small letters?

Because ITT means "in this thread..."

Black people in the US use the N word all the time. Once again certain groups of people get special treatment while others do not. Political correctness is for the birds.

The fact that terms like 'the N word' have to be used is indicitave of ridiculous sensitivities. Its all about context...you can use all sorts of words in an offensive way, and you can also use them in a non-offensive way. Better to let people choose their words freely and for others to judge if the way they have used them is acceptable. 

The relationship between legality and morality is a tricky one. Because laws are a way of carrying out things that are supposedly good for society, and the way that something is evaluated as good for society or not is based on collective beliefs about morality. So when thinking about legality, you also want to think about the morality that that legality is supposed to facilitate, as it is what makes legality meaningful.

The thing about free speech laws is that, it seems like they are among other things supposed to protect a person's right to speak against the government as well as society. What's useful about having it as a law is that you are protected by the government and from the government when it comes to your freedom of speech.

But when society tries to bully you away from free speech, for example certain phrases that they don't like, I start to wonder, what is worse, the government punishing you for saying certain phrases, or society? Society can't get you arrested, but they can cancel you and abuse you -- society is quite powerful since it has the power of numbers. Society can act as a vigilante, and try to take justice into their own hands if enough people want to do so. I don't know, it just seems like the spirit of free speech is for people to not feel afraid to speak up, but if all that means is that instead of the government punishing you, society punishes you instead, then that spirit doesn't seem to be achieved; there doesn't seem to be much protection, there.

The tough thing is that on the other hand, we would like to say that a person can have a variety of reasons not to like you, that, if a person hates you because you used a slur, well that's their prerogative, if a slur really made you mad, we can't tell you not to be mad or to enjoy company with the person who said it. However, if many of these people band together to cancel people, then all of a sudden they can become very dangerous, and the kind of thing that we might want protection from. And we do protect things that are like this: black people are protected from job discrimination, even if we can't literally force an employer to not have a racist belief about black people. But because the government offers protections, society can't just band together and decide to collectively keep black people out of work. It's not simply that black people are unrestricted from anything that is also unrestricted from whites, it's that there are concrete protections that don't allow society to team up against black people in particular ways.

I don't really see a similar kind of protection like that for freedom of speech. You can't be arrested for saying certain words (with rare exceptions), but there doesn't seem to be protection against society becoming a vigilante in place of the government to punish those who say certain words. It's like, do you want to get punished by Darth Vader or the Joker, I don't know, doesn't sound like much of a choice. I would say to call something protection, you should be protected from both, not just one or the other

The problem is when the government/society tries to force its morality on others.

Back in the 60's, 70's and even the 80's it was the government needs to stay out of bedrooms. Now it is you need to agree that homosexual relationships are moral and equivalent to traditional relationships.

It is a creep that has overstepped its rightful position.

Let each person believe as he or she wishes.

Hetero here, but I can say this is quite a stupid post.  Gay Definition: 1. (of a person) homosexual (used especially of a man).  2. Lighthearted and carefree. 

When I was younger, the word "gay" meant "happy". Another perfectly good English word has been bustardized.

P.S. I wanted to used the correct spelling of the "B" word, but the idiotic community guidelines filter wouldn't let me, lol. I mean, I was actually using the primary definition of the word...

'I'm not homophobic. I'm not scared of my house'. 

forum quotes here we come

yeaah lol

Administering justice isn't a policeman's job. That's a task for a judge.