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Rex

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17. Rivera is fucking stupid and shows it just about every chance he gets.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Fri Dec 20, 2013, 03:26 PM

Dec 2013

Okay so let me get this right - IF you grow up in an environment that is hostile toward the LGBT community, slurs are not slurs because they are commonplace in that environment? What kind of fucked up logic is that?

Like I said, fucking stupid.

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Geraldo Rivera: �C*cksucking f*ggot� is not an anti-gay slur if you grew up with it [View all] kpete Dec 2013 OP

Well get the red out Dec 2013 #1

Segregated bus-seats aren't discrimination if you grew up with them. arcane1 Dec 2013 #5

Leaches can be useful LibertyLover Dec 2013 #23

It wasn't a big deal, really. MineralMan Dec 2013 #8

Many people also avoided death from the 1918 European Influenza outbreak... odd that, too. LanternWaste Dec 2013 #13

Yah, well, metallic mercury isn't all that hazardous. MineralMan Dec 2013 #18

So were all kinds of other nasty ethnic/racial slurs. Jackpine Radical Dec 2013 #2

Agreed. Archae Dec 2013 #14

My Favorite Wingnut sometimes tries to make fun of "PC" speech, but Jackpine Radical Dec 2013 #16

It blows my mind the shit we did joeglow3 Dec 2013 #21

Yes, they were. A couple would have been hurled in Geraldo's direction LiberalAndProud Dec 2013 #15

The gay stuff.. sendero Dec 2013 #3

"fundamentalist"! sibelian Dec 2013 #4

Projection Cali_Democrat Dec 2013 #10

What crap, Geraldo! MineralMan Dec 2013 #6

Jerry is a moron. Packerowner740 Dec 2013 #7

it was commonplace when a lot of us grew up, as was the N word and some others we don't say today yurbud Dec 2013 #9

Giraldo Rivera = Snidley Whiplash Initech Dec 2013 #11

Funny you should mention c*cksucking Geraldo. Ganja Ninja Dec 2013 #12

Rivera is fucking stupid and shows it just about every chance he gets. Rex Dec 2013 #17

oh and minorities... do not wear hoodies or you are asking for it. ya. the guy is stupid. nt seabeyond Dec 2013 #19

No, Geraldo, Le Taz Hot Dec 2013 #20

ah, the Michael Vick defense makes a comeback MisterP Dec 2013 #22

Did Rivera defend Baldwin when it happened at the time? Jefferson23 Dec 2013 #24

It was also commonplace for rock stars to be pedophiles intaglio Dec 2013 #25

Rivera's head is as empty as Capone's vault. n/t ChisolmTrailDem Dec 2013 #26

i'm sure that spic, wetback, and beaner were rather commonplace as well.. frylock Dec 2013 #27

Or "greaser," a word that will still get you flattened in any bar in New Mexico Warpy Dec 2013 #28

word up frylock Dec 2013 #29