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Related: About this forum'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 itSure he used a slur, but he didnt 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 wasnt done in a negative way.
It didnt 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 Hoques employee wanted to photocopy Sokolowskis drivers 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
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Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)1. This reminds me of a statement I heard from my late father-in-law.
"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.
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.
"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.