[lbo-talk] Making Friends In Low Places...

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Mar 14 10:33:30 PST 2006


Leigh Meyers wrote:


>Leigh wrote:
>>(They're really, truly, by definition, faggots.)
>
>Dennis Claxton wrote:
>> What is this supposed to mean?
>
>Did I say something offensive?
>
>Doug Henwood wrote:
>> Thank you - I missed that particular toxic eruption from our
>>hippie. What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
>
>Ad homs... toxic... eruption... hippie... never to approach the
>content of my argument (I yawn...).
>
>It's an attack on their macho, I stated that quite plainly, but indirectly:
>
><...>
>I was calling SOGS military assassins, that probably pleased
>them because it feeds the macho image...like calling cops pigs.
>(They're really, truly, by definition, faggots.)
><...>
>
>The meaning of 'Faggot' (in the derogatory sense of the word). Discuss.

Unless you can explain why this is not homophobic and insulting, as well as not as idiotic as it seems on first reading, you're out of here.

Doug



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