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Indeed it is......
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Ciaervo (Humour Impaired; 12347)
Posted on: 02-28-2005 00:31.
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I'm making a distinction between what actually offends me and what I should be offended by: anti-patriotism. In fact, I'm not offended by any of those sandwiches; I'm not a big fat bitch filippino-dyke. However, were I such a person and I had to choose between feeling sorry for myself because 2'000 people whom I don't care about died four years ago in a city far far away, and feeling sorry for myself because I'm fat, lesbian, and generally rediculous, I'd choose the latter. It's a matter of personal feelings coming before empathy.
"Fat Bitch" doesn't refer to anyone specifically but it is a more emotionally charged insult. It targets a specific personal defect, much like "four eyes," or "gimp". It cruelly implies that the person in question is wholly contemptible; it is a slur in the same vein of "nigger".
"Li'l Eichmann," on t'other hand, only makes negative reference to a bunch of dead people whom we'll've forgotten in twenty years. (They ain't special, folks; let's move on.) If they weren't dead there'd be no problem. "Li'l Eichmann" is no more biting than "queer"; It's only 'cause tradition makes us worship the deceased that we can't talk frankly 'bout 'em after the fact. However, like I said, in twenty or fifty years no one will care; by then we'll've forgotten we ever did care. The offense people feel in response to "Li'l Eichmanns" is completely arbitrary.
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