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stevenleser

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4. I don't understand it either.

Reply to yardwork (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 03:52 PM

Jul 2012

Maybe I am approaching it the wrong way. Maybe the approach is, "Do you really want to be known as someone who uses slurs. Would you be happy being known as the kind of person who uses words like n----r, s--c, or k--e? This is the same thing."

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Most of the time, I love DU. Then there are those times... [View all] stevenleser Jul 2012 OP

Thanks for being juror # 5. Gormy Cuss Jul 2012 #1

Thank's Gormy stevenleser Jul 2012 #2

What I don't understand is the outrage at being asked - politely - not to use sexist terms. yardwork Jul 2012 #3

I don't understand it either. stevenleser Jul 2012 #4

Sometimes people are very nice. A poster out in GD just edited the c word out of his post at request yardwork Jul 2012 #5

+1 Zorra Jul 2012 #6

+2 Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #7

+3 Gormy Cuss Jul 2012 #8