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"Did you know that gay used to mean happy?."- Michael Scott
See if Michael Scott said it, it's true.

Maybe "retard" and "faggot" and "asshole" and "cuntsticker" and "dickpickle" don't actually refer to people people with those qualities, but rather to the fact that their behavior is irritating, immature, annoying, and unnecessary. Maybe let's not be so sensitive.

You could say "maybe", but when someone uses those words to call somebody else out (wait who the fuck says cuntsticker) they almost always mean it in the derogative way. When someone says faggot you know they think being gay is something to make fun of. If not they wouldn't be using the word in the first place

IRL, I have never heard "retard" to demean a mentally challenged person.

Gay doesn't mean happy anymore people, words change. now it means homosexual

Also never have I heard a gay person being casually referred to as a faggot. Sort of how "cunt" means "vagina" but now it's near synonymous with "asshole". There's a difference between what it means and what it's used for.

It's really close to the asshole too!!

??????? *insert confused black guy meme* ???
It doesn't matter if you've personally heard it or not, it's disrespectful and meant to demean gay people. It's happened before you, and it'll probably keep happening after you. It can't be said that a derogatory word can be changed to mean "annoying/irritating" and all of a sudden it isn't offensive anymore. If anything that's worse

Annnnnd I'm going to stop replying because this is the internet and nobody is learning anything from this

You know language is the only subject that change with time? New discoveries occurs in science, history, math, but they don't change. Language is always growing, evolving, changing, and can even die. It's probably the closest thing to an organism that isn't living and breathing. Humans certainly wouldn't be where we are without it, and it wouldn't exist with out us: it's almost a relationship of mutualism. So all that to say, the definition of the term "gay" has changed from happy to homosexual, to being used almost solely for gay men. But it will change again. And one that day you can say gay, or gaybie, or whatever you want.

Yeah see there we go.
There is a time to be professional and a time to not.
There is a time to be kind and a time to not.
There is a time to stand up for what is right and a time to wait.
But never should you be offended on someone else's behalf. Ever.

Absolutely, we use the term offended way too much now a days. For me, true offense only comes with there the other person is provoking my to become insulted; anything else is a disagreement of viewpoints.

Oh, perfect example right here in this thread.
One could say "there's a faggot/cunt/dick going around downvoting everything". But do we mean "that gay/that's vaginal/that's penile person going around downvoting everything"? No. We mean "hey there's an asshole downvoting things".

Don't offend anyone chu you meant rectum or anus.

What have I done

You have created a dialogue kind sir.

If Chu has never heard of a gay person or mentally challenged person being called those words, then OBVIOUSLY they are never called these things.

/s

I'm just saying the perception of insulting the gay or disabled (specifically with those words) is much greater than the actual insulting.
It's like calling all cops power hungry pigs. Well...yeah some are. And because we see so much more news on power abuse than do-goodies we have this perception that cops are bad but most aren't.