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expatriot

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Sat Oct-04-03 05:08 AM
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23. this term detracts from the movements' supposed aims...

okay, first of all, I signed up... I like the aim and the purpose but the term 'brights' is so very, very awful and really detracts from all that this movement could potentially offer.

First of all, it connotates that air of intellectual superiority and elitism that has already been commented on here.

Second of all, it seems to intentionally borrow from the terminology of the term 'gay' for homosexuals. I do not have anything against the term gay and who ever first coined the term it quickly lost its meaning as 'happy,'

Why choose a term that will make an uphill fight even steeper?

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