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Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus

Oh ya? Here is a direct quote from this thread: "yeah, we hate them.. And putting quotations around 'people' is simply dehumanizing them as people who commit those atrocities don't deserve the title of 'human'..."

As for "insinuating" that hatred is implied when using a slur like freak, such an insinuation is no different than when using "hebe" for jew, the N word for a person of color, "beaner" for Latino, "homo" for gay, "fatso" for the obese, etc.

I'm going to anticipate that you (or someone) will argue that those epithets do not necessarily imply hatred, per se. OK, maybe, but it's indisputable they are condescending at the very least. And again, while we have a right to be condescending or even hateful, we will be scorned by a civilized society.

Perhaps sensitive individuals should not enter into discussions where they might be offended by someone else's difference in opinion? I must have missed the part in the First Amendment that stipulated that freedom of speech must be limited to only agreeable comments. Sorry about the sarcasm. I put that caveat on, so you would know that I am being sensitive to others' concerns about "hateful" language.