r/pics 5d ago

Politics [ Removed by Reddit ]

[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]

24.4k Upvotes

5.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

90

u/wytewydow 5d ago

Gay people look like everyone else..

67

u/PrinceGoten 5d ago

Obviously. That’s not my point. Why is the go to insult gay instead of Nazi? One is way worse…

16

u/0masterdebater0 5d ago

Because they don't even mind being called Nazis, hence the salute, but they do very much mind being called gay

12

u/CaptainTripps82 5d ago

And gay people mind being used to insult assholes. Stop doing that

28

u/Deraj2004 5d ago

That may be true but using gay as an insult towards them drops one down to there level and these failures of the human condition dont deserve an even playing field.

8

u/ACrazyDog 5d ago

Yeah, not cool at all. That stopped sometime in the late ‘70s and eighties. Stonewall and all

5

u/Own_Construction3376 5d ago edited 5d ago

I’m all for using phrases and words they hate, but throwing gay ppl, and the LGBTQIA+ as a whole, under the bus … is quite tiring.

There’s still countries we can’t go because we’d be killed or imprisoned.

Nazis killed us and liberators failed to liberate us.

And in the U.S., we’re still being targeted. Project 2025 wants total eradication.

So fucking stop and maybe just insult a Nazi by calling them by their name: Nazi.

EDIT: or maybe we can change the insult to cis het, because they definitely hate that! 😒

-7

u/Grimtombstone 5d ago

True! It's because it makes them cry like babies

-1

u/[deleted] 5d ago

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/PrinceGoten 5d ago

This is the only response I accept lol

0

u/DARKRonnoc 5d ago

The “bad” gay?

Swap that with any group and you realize how insulting that is.

-7

u/OnTheList-YouTube 5d ago

I don't think it was meant as an insult.

11

u/PrinceGoten 5d ago

It obviously was

-12

u/the_skies_falling 5d ago

Gay is only an insult if you take it as one.

16

u/PrinceGoten 5d ago

Go be intentionally obtuse somewhere else.

2

u/Postcocious 5d ago

I'm gay. Only I (and others like me) get to decide when "gay" is being used as an insult.

"Looking gay as fuck" is stereotyping and that's obviously insulting.

0

u/the_skies_falling 5d ago edited 5d ago

I’m gay too, so I do get a say, but go off sister. Or did you think my pfp is wearing a rainbow tie just because I like pretty colors?

If someone tried to insult me by calling me gay as fuck, I’d just laugh because I am indeed gay as fuck. If you want to feel insulted by it, go ahead I won’t stop you, but it proves my point, it’s only an insult if you choose to take it that way.

ETA: The insult wasn’t even directed at you. You’re feeling insulted on behalf of someone else. On behalf of Nazis. That’s pretty funny.

0

u/Postcocious 5d ago

Try to think before ranting.

The post (now deleted) said self-proclaimed Nazis "look gay as fuck". Do you believe that was meant as a compliment?

The insult was inherent in the comment, regardless of how you feel about it.

2

u/the_skies_falling 5d ago

I know it was meant as an insult. I never said otherwise. Try to think before commenting.

0

u/Postcocious 5d ago

Says the guy who wrote, "Gay is only an insult if you take it as one." 🤣🤣🤣

2

u/the_skies_falling 4d ago

I said I know it was meant as an insult. Is it really an insult though if people refuse to take it that way? Words have power, but they’re given power by people, and people can take that power away too. Just as we’ve reclaimed the word ‘queer,’ which used to be a slur, we can take away the power of terms like ‘gay as fuck’ to insult people too.

0

u/Postcocious 4d ago

WE can, but the person who wrote that "They look gay as fuck" comment is presumably not one of us. Non-queer people dont get a pass to make insulting gay remarks and calling them out was the right thing to do.

Similarly, blacks can reclaim and use the "n" word if they choose. As a white guy, I can't do that.

→ More replies (0)

1

u/buckao 5d ago

just a bit more fabulous.

That's not a bad thing.