Apple Pie. Baseball. The Fourth of July. And Go Fuck Yourself.
I don't know if any of you guys read the papers or watch the news. But recently White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen called a columnist for the Sun-Times a "Fag." Now all kinds of gay rights groups etc. are in a tizzy because they view this as a demeaning word and they are offended and how could someone say this and blah blah blah.
You know what I say? I say that your leather pants are too tight there, butch. Welcome to America, where being offended and being pissed off comes with the territory. It is what this country great!
Because in America you can say pretty much whatever you want. Go ahead and criticize the government, a movie, a sports team...no prob. In fact the USA is the first country to not only say it's okay, but it is expected of you to do this. However there is a price we pay for the right to do this, and that price is that we are going to hear a LOT of stuff we disagree with. Because in a land of free ideas, you have to wade through 99 ideas that are pure crap before you get to one that is good.
And you know what else? Just because someone says something you don't like gives you no moral high ground. Whatever minority you come up with (in this case Homosexuals) they are always preaching "tolerance" towards themselves. They have huge parades in Boystown dedicated to this tolerance. Well where the hell is your tolerance for others who disagree with you? Yes, the word "fag" is a slur. But every ethnic group or minority has been exposed to this sort of thing. From the Irish to Italians to Germans to Jews to the Japanese there are more offensive ways to refer to all these people. And those people are all okay and welcome here in the USA. The bottom line is that you choose to be offended, when you could just as easily choose to ignore a bat-sh*t crazy baseball manager.
I'm with you Josh. He's a crazy guy and he pops off like this all the time. If the White Sox don't like it, they can fire him.
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Well, this seems like people are getting upset about something just to get upset about something, when really any adult in the world wouldn't give a shit. For example, earlier in the week, some person set a fire in a library and destroyed a bunch of homosexuality themed books. Gay leaders were in the media saying it was a Hate Crime. "We are being discriminated against!!" WRONG! Turns out the fire was set by a pissed off homeless person for being mistreated by the library. Jeez.
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