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Originally Posted by fencerchica  FF, please stop throwing around anti-gay slur words like this. I know you have a different take on slur words but it's unpleasant to see ugly words like that flung around casually like they're nothing, and in a place like fnet too. It's not even the same as when people try to "reclaim" words like the f-word and n-word by putting a pseudo-positive spin on them, b/c you're not doing that, either. Hopefully you don't mean any harm by it, but even so I'd appreciate it if you'd lay off. |
'intellectual faggotry' has a very specific meaning. I'm sorry you are offended. It's a term used to mean when something is artificially, non naturally created by sheer volition. Something isnt true, but if you try hard enough, say it often enough it becomes true because it has so much impetus behind it.
The most popular variant on this is a new academic discipline that has yet to reach a critical mass of literature from which to quote and use as evidence in an assertion. Womens Studies in the early 90's was guilty of this. Many English department heads, sub rosa of course, absolutely loathed what was brought to the table by that movement. Even women chairs felt as if they were invading sacred ground, bringing false, forced doctrine with an agenda to gain more respect for women where English was really just concered about ... well English. They felt that gender issues were an artificial graft.
Many, perhaps still the majority of people believe that GLBT and GLBT studies are well, not normal. non natural. Thru their seemingly tireless efforts they have become, if not mainstream, more omnipresent. They have forced non gays to accept their presence as a force in politics and community affairs. They are also largely responsible for the political correctness movveent in the US.
So intellectual faggotry describes two things:
1) the forcing of, the impetus created by a protracted siege on what was standard, normal in a community
2) the corruption of an already existing discipline by an artificial graft of a proto discipline in order to gain more credence.
3) if theres a third meaning its related, a back handed homage to the group largely responsible for the above two. GLBT
So you see the term has a meaning, it was a slur thrown around often at my University to desctibe what was happening to various disciplines. Jut as many of us straight folk think its unnatural for GLBT'ers to do what they do, it was unnatural for them to come in and destroy and remake an existing discipline in their own image. For example, many in our English dept didnt want their influence bt they came anyways armed with "Im going to sue" if you don't respect me....
SO my usage of the term isn't so much a slur against gays per se. I use the term because many here will merely assert, constantly assert stuff without the slightest bit of credible evidence. But they do so because they have a popular, if erroneous viewpoint. But they keep asserting it so much so that it becomes accepted because people don't want the conflict.
Hauptman, is a prime example of, you guessed it, intellectual faggotry.
fencer chica, I rarely take the time to explain myself. I feel its the readers responsibility to either clarify or know the meaning of a term via context or life experience. Take the fact that Im willing to explain as a sign that I wasn't trying to offend you with it. Intellectual faggotry is a phrase. Perhaps you are getting caught up with the word faggot. But it, at least in the midwest libarts colleges, has
some oblique currency.
Finally, when I use a term I usually, almost always, use a very specific term meaning a very specific thing.
I maintain that many an f-netter is guilty of the above: Superscrbe, Hauptman, ILSaber, jeff(sometimes.. on the Jewish topics), and others.
If you can't accept something to be true BECAUSE, your special interest group would LIKE it NOT to be the case, you are guilty of IF.
Antigun folk who pervert evidence before submitting it or use popular PC assertions to subvert the Constitution.... IF totally.
Jews who cannot accept, despite evidence, that their lobbying is detrimental to the US at this time because they use our secular tax dollars to promote the well being of a religiously founded state..... IF. If our economy wasnt in the ****ter,btw, I would probably be more TOLERANT, though even still I will never be fully accepting. When Colin Powell says repeatedly that this nations military is controlled by Jewish Lobby interests... see wikipedia.
When the chair of the African Studies dept at my uni, during Black History Month tells me that they should be allowed to post flyers that state Beethoven, Jesus Christ, Mozart, George Washington(not Carver) are BLACK just because it makes them feel better and they are entitled to that feeling... IF.
Hope that clears it up. Again, truly sorry you were offended. Not my intention. Fair warning though. I'm not the slightest bit PC. Yet, that I am willing to have discourse with anyone regardless of their race color creed etc. should tell you how I feel about racial, gender, or sexual bias.
Fatfencer
PS: One thing I have to say that I resent is cracker honky over privileged Jew-boys telling me I'm an
anti-Semite, which IS a slur Fencerchica. Zionism is racism first of all. Second, white people have caused so much misery on the North American continent that they frankly don't ever get to say ****. Just ask the American Indians, the Blacks, the Asians, etc. that white folk have pissed on since the inception of America. White people calling others racist when I have experienced the full Ragnarok of Aryan fury... ****ing-a. Total bull****. Total intellectual faggotry. I for one am not only NOT going to accept it, but I WILL give as good as I get. I don't lose fights. Ever.
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