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Wed Jul-23-03 01:08 PM
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19. I hate it when any type of person misuses a word...

I hate it when white people talk about how they got "lynched" because somebody posted a message on a message board. Lynching is when a bunch of bigots torture and kill you, not when you have to read words that don't make you happy.

Lynching is an extrajudicial execution w/out due procees of law. It doesn't necessarily have to do with bigotry, and it can easily be used metaphorically.

Can you see how all these comments are a little, um, insensitive?

I can see how they are rather silly based on proportionality, and don't really apply at all to how the poster you responded to used 'lynching'.

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