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It kinda bothers me that hate groups can just take a symbol or a word and make it theirs forever.

shortylickens said:

I dont actually care about the Thin Blue Line, its just the concept that bothers me.

I DO care about not being able to keep a yellow flag snake any more. I kinda like that one. But if I have it on my car or my bag or my phone everyone is just going to assume I'm a racist, or worse yet, a Republican.
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I miss being able to lol at this. Now its just a symbol of Trumptards.
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I know what the OP means. Hell, I remember when "gay" meant happy...and the rainbow was just the prismatic effect of light and water vapor.

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The UW Police are a smaller, separate department from Madison police and the Capitol police (even smaller), but it's a start and better than nothing.
The symbol is toxic, and doesn't evoke the same imagery and thinking as it did a year or two ago in my opinion.
If there is only one liberal bastion in the state, it would be Madison (likely in large part due to the UW itself and the cultural variance it brings to the city).
 
BoomerD said:
I know what the OP means. Hell, I remember when "gay" meant happy...and the rainbow was just the prismatic effect of light and water vapor.

😛
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Man, I watched on old World of Color on Disney+ from 1965 and Walt said "gay" in it about 20 times. I obviously knew it used to mean happy, but I had no idea it was so common.

I'm still made about "queer" being a swear. I loved playing smear the queer as a kid (I was always told it just meant the odd one out or the person who was different), last year I was teaching my daughter and a friend and I was like "shit, I can't teach them that name" so I had to google "PC name for smear the queer" came up with "Kill Ball."
 
Zorba said:
Man, I watched on old World of Color on Disney+ from 1965 and Walt said "gay" in it about 20 times. I obviously knew it used to mean happy, but I had no idea it was so common.

I'm still made about "queer" being a swear. I loved playing smear the queer as a kid (I was always told it just meant the odd one out or the person who was different), last year I was teaching my daughter and a friend and I was like "shit, I can't teach them that name" so I had to google "PC name for smear the queer" came up with "Kill Ball."
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I thought queer was ok now?
And yes, smear the queer was a pretty good game way back when.
 
Greenman said:
I thought queer was ok now?
And yes, smear the queer was a pretty good game way back when.
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I think it depends on the context. I think a lot of people believe that "smear the queer" was specifically the homosexual context as opposed to odd one out context.

Speaking of, right up there with racists stealing non-racist symbols, I'm sick of people thinking things have a racist/sexist origin that don't, like "tar baby," "murphy's law," "rode them hard and put them away wet," or "balls out."
 
“Fake news” was a term to describe disinformation until Trump took it over, twitter raped it, turned it around to mean the opposite. Bitxhes are taking “red pill” now.
 
I dislocated my left index finger mountain biking a few months ago. One of the things I've been doing to rehab it is bending it basically making an OK sign and I do it at work a lot. I've just been waiting for somebody to get pissed and having to explain it lol. At this point I've gotten to where I can almost fully bend it so I'm passed the OK sign stage thankfully.
 
Zorba said:
Man, I watched on old World of Color on Disney+ from 1965 and Walt said "gay" in it about 20 times. I obviously knew it used to mean happy, but I had no idea it was so common.

I'm still made about "queer" being a swear. I loved playing smear the queer as a kid (I was always told it just meant the odd one out or the person who was different), last year I was teaching my daughter and a friend and I was like "shit, I can't teach them that name" so I had to google "PC name for smear the queer" came up with "Kill Ball."
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