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Originally Posted by iruinedyourday
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Why are you crusading for me to stop crusading? Defending the use of ethnic slurs is what you find yourself needing to fight about on a forum?
Mess, Toehammer, you guys should seriously take your own advice.
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Nowhere were either of us defending the use of ethnic slurs, nor dudefagbro language as I will call it. Most young boys learn the word "fag" before they know what hetero or homo even means. It is just part of young male vernacular in the USA. It will take anywhere from 10-100 years, or never, to fully purge the language of it. Just deal with it man... that is reality. It is not homophobia, just as using his instead of her is not sexism... it is just convention/habit more than anything. I remember the old AD&D book had a short concise paragraph about using masculine pronouns vs. feminine ones due to familiarity. Now lots of writing defaults to her instead of his, because most men don't give a crap about juvenile word usage battles.
I think you need to take a look at the forest for the trees.
You are wasting a lot of time whining/protesting/complaining, all tactics of
inaction. I am trying to enlighten you to possible
actions you can take: opt out of rants and flames and report people who make take RnF-type comments out of RnF.
I don't know how old you are, so I will not guess. But, your actions are slightly immature. If you really just wanna go on a crusade, you have to find soldiers. P1999 is a land of limp-wristed mouse clickers... good luck! Crusades need generals that know where to take the battle... P1999 is not a good place to take an equality crusade.
Also, your original post is obnoxious, even to those of us who do not condone usage of said terms. Your energy is misdirected. Since I can not get through to you... I invoke wiser words: "Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier."
If you want to put in an honest effort, instead of your OP calling people KKK members and horrible future parents, you should have said simply, "Hey can we crack down on the comments more by reporting people quickly?" If it works good, if it doesn't move on... dead horses are not for (b)eating