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"Barry Margolin" <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> BTR1701 <atro...@mac.com> wrote:
>
>>  Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > OK, then please give examples of homophobia that meet your definition?
>>
>> I'm not allowed to. Only gay people can use gay slurs in today's
>> America. Just as blacks are the only ones allowed to use the 'n-word'.
>> Everyone else is forbidden, even in the context of analysis of the words
>> themselves, even when devoid of any bigoted intent, from even mentioning
>> those words.
>
> You can talk about these things without using taboo words, can't you?

I'd say that his avoidance of offering an answer was pretty much an example 
of his running away in fear of the subject.