Tucker wants to know why it is a bad thing to call someone gay

[proud2BlibKansan]

Ed Schultz on now talking about Ann Coulter.

Tucker is a dweeb. And Ed is smacking him down good.

[terrya]

1. If you're a fucking homophobe like Tucker Carlson...

then you tend to agree with other homophobes and their hatred.

[Warpy]

2. Uh, because it's JUVENILE, Tucker?

I guess the right just has no sense of context. If you're warning an enamored coworker off somebody who is out, it's perfectly OK.

However, if that isn't the sort of thing that's the case, as I suspect it rarely is in Tucker's world, it's just middle school level taunting.

Most of us left it behind, Tucker. Why can't you?

[11 Bravo]

4. If Tucker ever reaches puberty, maybe he'll outgrow his childishness.

[blondeatlast]

5. Never happen--Tucker's afraid of ANYTHING that smacks of real, honest-to-goodness flesh.

It doesn't matter which parts it happens to have.

[blondeatlast]

3. Ed--just mention Tucker's pretty, pretty hair.

The audience will get your point. :rofl:

[endarkenment]

6. The irony I'm sure is lost on tucker. nt.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Well he did stop wearing that bow tie

:)

[BlooInBloo]

8. Assuming (falsely) that Tucker truly cared, he should read my post! lol!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1190842&mesg_id=1190988

[Warpy]

9. Very good post and very good point.

Although I did my share of speculation until a DUer dug up a picture of Coulter in fencing class that showed her as female (mousy brown hair but definitely Annie), that was the end of it. I reluctantly had to accept that two X chromosomes produced her and to suggest she had anything in common with any transsexuals anywhere was unfair and insulting to them.

Yes, pejoratives like "gay," "trannie" or "Mongoloid idiot" do splash far beyond their intended targets. Alert must be maintained for their use in irony and sarcasm, though.

[Skidmore]

10. I have a hard time referring to Tucker as terrestrial.

[dsc]

11. She didn't call him gay

she called him a fag. That would be like asking what is wrong with calling people black after Michael Richard's comic meltdown.