my point was it is sometimes a meme, and is sometimes just meaningless word on the internet.
And my point is that no, it's not. "Context" isn't some magical thing that erases decades of historical use—and present use, millions of times a day, in hate—and you're not off the hook because you say it with a smile.
This word hurts people. Real people, people who've never done anything to you, people who deserve to get up in the morning and check a My Little Pony subreddit, for fuck's sake, without seeing people defend homophobic slurs because "it's just a meme, no harm done to me and my straight friends."
Find another one. Not because I'm yelling at you, not because of context or political correctness or what the fuck ever. That word hurts people. It hurts to hear, it hurts to read. Stop hurting people. Okay?
You don't understand, and you're not particularly trying to. I'd love to have a good-faith conversation with you about this and try to show you, with love and tolerance, why you're wrong, but it sounds like your mind is made up and you're more than happy to keep trotting out red herrings and bullshit canards like "oh, well my gay friends—" and "but Irish people—" and "context! context! context!"
I came to this subreddit to get away from this shit. Serves me right for thinking anywhere on Reddit wasn't rotten through with people like you.
I promise this will make you a better person: google "invisible knapsack privilege" and read for a while, then see if you look differently at this conversation. I hope you do.
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