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I'll just post this in response to several posts.
I think we can all agree that LJ's comments were no joke. So let's put that assumption aside entirely. And I'll concent that in other situtations, it's entirely possible to say someone is a "f@ggot" and have it be a joke. That's not what happened here.
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I agree it's not a joke, LJ's statement was out of frustration, but faqqot and the way he used it really was taken out of context a lot because of what you mentioned below. Guys use that term A LOT, but for different reasons than calling someone gay.
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Beyond that, most every common use of the term "f@ggot" is intended as a pejorative. And "f@ggot" is an extreme pejorative that is has the effect it does specifically because it elicits an overwhelmingly negative reaction based on the visceral disgust straight men often have at the thought of two men french kissing each other or having anal sex.
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I will mostly agree with this.
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Anyone who's ever had someone close to them, that they really care about, that is gay... will recognize how harsh and just unacceptable that term is. And when used as a pejorative, it's *exactly* like "n!gger" but for an entirely different community.
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This I don't agree with at all. One deals with race history of slavery and one deals with sexual preference. Completely different.