honey... "tranny" is the abbreviated word for "transgendered". It's only only innappropriate if it's used as an insult by a strsight person, neither of which applies here. I refuse to be strangled by politically correct dogma.

Also thats not at all how I read the Whoopi situation

Rosie O said you dont have to be black to understand Racism

Whoppi said yes you do

Rosie O Im Gay and I raised a black child she said she understands

Whoopi said thats not the same thing

Thats my issue stop making your struggle worse than others. If we want equality then show support not mine was worse off then yours so I know more then you do [!@#$%^&*]

I'm talking about what Whoopi was saying prior to that exchange you posted.

Edited December 18, 201410 yr by alphanguy74

honey... "tranny" is the abbreviated word for "transgendered". It's only only innappropriate if it's used as an insult by a strsight person, neither of which applies here. I refuse to be strangled by politically correct dogma.

I'm talking about what Whoopi was saying prior to that exchange you posted.

well I was talking about this exact exchange

Oh and TRANS is the abbreviated word for Transgendered. Tranny is just as foul as calling gays the F word or Blacks the N word

Edited December 18, 201410 yr by John

A lot of trans people also see it as an insult when it comes from gays...

As for Whoopi, I would agree with her about race, but as with many other topics, her view is tainted, given that she was fine with Ted Danson parading around in blackface.

A lot of trans people also see it as an insult when it comes from gays...

As for Whoopi, I would agree with her about race, but as with many other topics, her view is tainted, given that she was fine with Ted Danson parading around in blackface.

well I was talking about this exact exchange

Oh and TRANS is the abbreviated word for Transgendered. Tranny is just as foul as calling gays the F word or Blacks the N word

You all need to respect the colloquialisms of the older generation, instead of trying to force us all into your self righteous submission. If it's not meant as an insult, don't take it as one.

When folks in the Trans community say Tranny is an insult I listen to them and dont use but Im from a different generation Bull-[!@#$%^&*]. Sorry that just dont wash.

When folks in the Trans community say Tranny is an insult I listen to them and dont use but Im from a different generation Bull-[!@#$%^&*]. Sorry that just dont wash.

Then go to your parents and grandparents and tell them the exact same thing. And I've had many a gay man call me "fag", I never take offense in the least. We're all family, we can talk to each other as such.

Edited December 18, 201410 yr by alphanguy74

Then go to your parents and grandparents and tell them the exact same thing.

FIRST

You are not my family

And second my family wouldnt use terms like Tranny and if they did they wouldnt say well Im older its ok

FIRST

You are not my family

Yes, and I wasn't talking about you. Let's see you berate Cher for calling Kathy Griffin a "bitch". Isn't that a term that is meant to denigrate women? BTW.... in case your'e dense.. when I said "family" Most gay people of my age refer to ALL other gay people as "family".

Edited December 18, 201410 yr by alphanguy74

Yes, and I wasn't talking about you. Let's see you berate Cher for calling Kathy Griffin a "bitch". Isn't that a term that is meant to denigrate women? BTW.... in case your'e dense.. when I said "family" Most gay people of my age refer to ALL other gay people as "family".

I am aware However you said go tell my parents and grandparents so you brought my immediate family into this so thats why I answered back how I did

Edited December 18, 201410 yr by John

I am aware However you said go tell my parents and grandparents so you brought my immediate family into this so thats why I answered back how I did

My whole point was try ordering your parents and grandparents how to speak, and see how well that goes over.

Edited December 18, 201410 yr by alphanguy74

My whole point was try ordering your parents and grandparents how to speak, and see how well that goes over.

I would never do that with my Parents. However you are not my parents and comparing this situation to them does not hold water.

Back to The View...

I like All four, they work well in adversarial as well as friendly situations. Anything is better than listening to that annoying twit Elisabeth try to discuss ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I also get pissed when people bring up racism and then say you dont get it your not black

Then someone says Im gay or I raised a black child your told its not the same

Hate is hate. If we are striving for true equality here we need to support each others struggles and not be like well my struggle is worse or more important than yours.

Hate may be hate but I don't think the comparison is the same. I personally get put off by someone comparing being black to being gay as though black gay people don't exist. I could go on...

Raising a black child is defintely not the same because now we're not even talking about first-hand experience. We're talking about either being saddened by a child's misery or someone's hateful stares or words that are still directed toward that child. Mothers can feel pain for their children but I don't believe the can feel their children's pain.

Instead of trying to discuss these things through a prism of being able to "know what it's like or what it may feel like," maybe people should figure out that being the subject of discrimination or being an outcast is awful. So now that we understand pain and suffering exists go forward with possible solutions.

I wholeheartedly agree that racism should be a topic open to everyone. A person does not have to have experienced any of another person's experiences to know that it was bad or awful. If I fall and scrape my knee, no one needs to tell me that he or she fell as well to be able to say too bad for me or get up and stop whining about it.

I was not bringing up gay people and saying Black people dont exist.

My cousin fosters a black girl and she had racism in her face and her home was vandilized and she got letters telling them hey N lovers leave the neighborhood. Is that not first hand experience

Also Gays have also been discriminated, murdered, hung, dragged by cars etc just like blacks. They are both horrid experiences but this my racism is worse than yours so I win [!@#$%^&*] has got to stop

Edited December 18, 201410 yr by John