What a stupid bitch. The word "gay" became synonymous with homosexuality back in the 1920's, "coined" by "white people".
No words have been facistly "hijacked", by anyone. Language "evolves", unlike some Neanderthals (present company "included"). There is more to "fear" from the right, as the recent government shutdown, the contempt for Nelson Mandela and President Obama, the lust to go to war with Iran and N. Korea suggests.
And excuse me, but the Patriot Act...the beginning of the TSA, NSA and drone attacks were created on the watch of Bush/Cheney....thank you very much. The FBI and CIA?????? Hmmm, I seem to remember Iran/Contra, Gitmo, and Grenada, and Beirut, which happened on Reagan's watch. Maybe you should go back and take a History course, to re-familiarize yourself with what actually went down.
Coined by 'white people'....?...White people, huh ?....Interesting.
Homos were certainly called many things, and still are, ....deviates, queers, sodomites, fags and obviously gays, but it was the homos themselves that demanded that the
term gay be used to address their deviate life styles....the word 'gay' just didn't carry that judgmental tone that homo or queer or faggot did....and today its the common
term for both male and female homosexuals....even in our present dictionaries 'gay' has been re-defined as to its sexual use.....The term, though used earlier, became more
common in the '60's and 70's.....growing in those days, "queer" was still the term of choice...
In other times it did mean carefree, cheerful, happy, fun, etc.....that is the true and first definition of the word....and its obvious its been 'hijacked' and its
original meaning disregarded in lieu of its new sexual meaning....You may refer to it as evolution,...it changes nothing.
And the dictionary meaning of the words liberal and conservative have little to do with todays politics and how those words are now mis-used today but
they will remain the relevant terms as they have been.
Comparing the Patriot Act, TSA, NSA and the use of drones under Bush/Cheney with what is happening today is ludicrous........thats like trying to compare the battleship NJ with the battlestar Galactica...or a Uboat with the USS Nautilus....
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.Imagine that....coined by 'white people'.....