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so some cretinous, overpaid athlete offhandedly and in the heat of competition calls a referee a fucking fag, at which point america immediately screeches to a halt and said athlete is not only forced to grovel and explain himself and kiss GLAAD's ass for merely screaming what angry males have screamed at each other since time immemorial, but further, is told he'll have to cough up a hundred grand in order to make it right--and even that won't really be enough for his sudden and egregious new sin against humanity.
[a little context: this is the same athlete who was basically given a "so what?" pass by america over allegations of rape in a colorado hotel, and then again later when it was revealed that he and his wife had systematically and over a period of years exploited and abused their maid--but of course in the PC america of today shit like that's small potatoes in comparison to the use of the "f" word, right?]
my first reaction when i heard this story (once i retrieved my jaw from the floor) was, "give it up, niggers, because it's now official: the faggots done stole your victim crown."
my second reaction was wondering what most of the rest of the world--you know, the people who spend their lives routinely dodging machetes and bullets and bombs [i.e., folks who understand the true meaning of the words "injury" and "victim"] would think if they knew that some rich american asshole was forced to fork over enough money to feed their entire village for ten years merely because he called some other american asshole a name.
i remember back when the gays co-opted the derogatory slur "queer" and effectively neutralized its power by making it their own, and how smart i thought it was that my own particular oppressed minority had decided not to paint itself into the same semantic victim corner in which african-americans have languished for as long as i've been alive.
i guess somewhere between "queer" and "faggot", the sweet lure of victimhood became too great.
