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- From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
- Subject: Re: Is it Naivete, Stupidity or Homophobia? (Re: Recent Peeve
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.180136.24910@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 18:01:36 GMT
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- In <17969@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
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- >Peeve: Homophobes.
- ^^^^^^^^^^
-
- What a worthless word. I cringe every time someone uses it. It is
- essentially meaningless because nothing even close to the apparent
- conventional usage of the word can be derived from its liguistic
- parts.
-
- "Fear of the same." Homophobe.
-
- I know plenty of people who dislike homosexuals, but none who fear
- them - as a group, naturally.
-
- That's my peeve. Stupid, worthless, PC words used to class a certain
- group of people who express a dissenting belief or opinion. Homophobe
- is the penultimate example of that - I'm leaving the ultimate slot
- open yet because I know how dogmatic and tight-assed the kind of
- people who come up with stupid words like that can be. The word
- "humourless" springs to mind.
-
- Love,
- Bill - not a homophobe in any sense of the word, worthless as it is.
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