Reply #84: Do you call Clarence Thomas a nigger? Do you call Alberto

[Morgana LaFey]

Gonzalez a spic or wetback? Andrew Sullivan a queer or fag?


What, you don't?


WHY THE HELL NOT??????????

Don't they "deserve" it? It doesn't harm anyone ELSE, does it?


Of course it does. Hate langauge creates a climate of HATE where minorities, women, GLBT people can be harmed with impunity.

NO ONE, no matter how "bad" deserves to be denigrated, demeaned and humiliated on the basis of their race, sex, sexual orientation.


When we go to war, we have to crate horrible bigoted names for our enemies so that we can kill them -- gooks, ragheads, kinks, jerries and japs. When Hitler started demonizing the Jews -- and you know where THAT ended up -- he and his propagandists used language to convey their lack of humanity, calling them vermin, rats, etc.

THIS KIND OF DEHUMANIZATION, these hate words, cannot help but harm ALL women. If ANY woman can be called those things, ALL women can. The Queen of England isn't exempt from misogynist hate language.

If you don't want women killed just because they are women (4 a day in domestic violence alone), if you don't want them raped and molested (as adults and children), you have to stop supporting and enabling the belief that because of our gender alone we don't deserve respect. BEING A WOMAN IS NOT LESSER. Quit agreeing with those who want to make us so.

YOU don't respect women as a class, yet you yourself are a woman. Look how well the hate language and misogynist attitudes and beliefs and practices have worked on you.

The point is: insult people all you want EXCEPT on the basis of their race, sex, sexual orientation. Capice?