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Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:

> On Wednesday 27 May 2015 14:39, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > That kind of homophobic slur is inappropriate from anyone in this
> > community. Kindly cut it out altogether.
>
> I look forward to the day when people would read the earlier insult
> and be perplexed as to why it is a slur at all. In the same way as
> "your mother wears army boots" has become a joke slur, not taken
> seriously.

Yes, let's all work toward an end to the use of gender, sexuality,
ethnicity, and other inborn traits as the punchline of insults or jokes.

Until that happy day, let's work to improve the lot of those who are
made the butt of such slurs. Part of that work must be to call foul when
someone invokes an entire class of people as an insult.

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Ben Finney