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Behind the Aegis

(53,831 posts)
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 06:04 AM Jan 2019

'It didn't come from a place of hate': Head shop owner admits to anti-gay slur, but claims he didn't

'It didn't come from a place of hate': Head shop owner admits to anti-gay slur, but claims he didn't mean it

Sure he used a slur, but he didn’t mean it.

The manager of a Queens head shop and tattoo parlor accused of using an anti-gay insult against two customers admitted he used the word “f-----,” but said it wasn’t done in a negative way.

“It didn’t come from a place of hate,” Mohammed Hoque, 26, told the Daily News about the slur Tuesday as a protest raged outside the Village Moon on Roosevelt Ave. in Jackson Heights. “I defended my family and my property. That's all that happened."

Joseph Sokolowski, 39, and his husband, Jeremy Valarezo, 36, visited the head shop just before 1 a.m. Nov. 3 to buy a $46 tobacco pipe. They paid with a credit card, but balked when Hoque’s employee wanted to photocopy Sokolowski’s driver’s license as proof of ID.

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Maybe people should start talking about and CHECKING their fucking heterosexual privilege!
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'It didn't come from a place of hate': Head shop owner admits to anti-gay slur, but claims he didn't (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jan 2019 OP
This reminds me of a statement I heard from my late father-in-law. Arkansas Granny Jan 2019 #1
Not remarkable at all, I have heard it many times. Behind the Aegis Jan 2019 #2
I've heard it all my life. Saviolo Jan 2019 #3

Arkansas Granny

(31,483 posts)
1. This reminds me of a statement I heard from my late father-in-law.
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 06:11 AM
Jan 2019

"I'm not prejudiced. I've known some good n******s."

I know it sounds remarkable, but he truly believed that.

Behind the Aegis

(53,831 posts)
2. Not remarkable at all, I have heard it many times.
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 06:19 AM
Jan 2019

They really believe they aren't prejudiced, despite having bigoted beliefs. I have heard similar in regards to my being a Jew and being gay.

"You are so generous for a Jew."

"You aren't like those "sissy fags", you're cool."

They said those things and really didn't think it was problematic.

Saviolo

(3,268 posts)
3. I've heard it all my life.
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:34 PM
Jan 2019

"That's gay!"

"Um... I'm gay, could you maybe not use it as an insult?"

"Geeze, I didn't mean gay as in homosexual, I just meant gay as in bad, y'know. Don't be so sensitive!"

That attitude can go fuck off into the sun forever.

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