jawafour wrote:Hexx wrote:it still feels to be something that mirrors unwanted language rather than goes against it.
I’m legitimately furious and in complete dispair at Jawa for this opinion - and the completely false equivalency between ‘racist language’ and ‘gamon’.
even if you dislike ‘Gamon’ - what sort of person posts
that?
Hexx, you are making yourself enraged because of what you *think* I'm saying - you're not reading my posts in full. To cut the story short; yes, I would prefer to combat the things said by boneheaded idiots by avoiding using "their kind" of insults as it reflects poorly on our own positive arguments. However, I accept that "fighting fire with fire" is the only way that some of them will listen.
strawberry float off with that ‘their kind’ and ‘fire with fire’.
There is
no equivalency between racist language (with all its weight of history and modern day implications) against races.
And a tongue in cheek comment designed to disparage, belittle and annoy group of people,l of which all hold certain views - based on the red faced anger (some of the) they work themselves up into (not all red faced people not all white etc)
I know exactly what you’re saying. And it’s strawberry floating
offensive - particularly to people that suffer from actual racism.
Like the women you’ve ignored to defend racists from disparagement.
Even if you dislike Gamkn and want to criticise it. Stop presenting the two as equivalent.
You’re belittling the suffering of actual victims of racism by presenting those being called ‘gammon’ as suffering mirror’the same kind/equivalent. Just stop it.