Please please please please

You will be the one who's gonna burn....in hell, when Jesus send you there for all the eternity for being a *beep* f@ggot.

Lo más terrible se aprende enseguida, lo hermoso nos cuesta la vida

Dude...that's just sad! what about everyone else who's in it?

right, give the film a chance. i still go to movies even if they star republicans.

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I admit I am not as sensitive as you are. The slur was not direct toward me, however there are many that could be directed toward me at this time.

This is absolutely not to excuse his ___ (word stronger than error or misstep) I know that growing up people used the word all the time as a more vulgar word for sissy (granted, also offensive) or wimp. Not excusing - just saying.

Gay people refer to themselves as "queer" and that's not a problem. The British refer to cigarettes as "fags" and that's not a problem. I think it probably should be... (I know I was alarmed when I heard about the cigs - holy cow, how rude.) but it is accepted without a second thought. Honestly, I wonder if that definition came before the homosexual definition.

As I write this, I wonder how I would feel if it was a slur toward me. If they said (not calling me personally, but said in public,) "Nig___" would I be upset, the answer is yes. And yes, there was one comment that was made in the late 80s (just before his death) by a movie idol from the 30s - someone I had watched for decades (I can't find the quote anywhere, probably because it was the internet,) but when I heard it I was crestfallen. Of course, watching old movies with legends in blackface or having black slaves or servants and treating them as non-people, became, to me, a non-issue because I understood that's how society felt at that time so I would just focus on the main characters problems and plotline. I learned to ignore it (not to throw the baby out with the bathwater) BTW, this is a cultural skill - for both of us - Just check out Langston Hughes' "We Wear the Mask" (I suppose that could apply to a closet as well, huh)

Tell me what do you want Isaiah Washington to do? How can he and others who have made stupid missteps? These are actors, mouthpieces, interpreters. Michael Richards and even to a lesser extent Tracy Morgan (who had to know better). Are they to just go find other jobs not in the public eye? Is there any atonement? Will it just take time or is there no hope at all? I think publicists have been able to resurrect careers who have had equally disasterous missteps. But action like that must be taken immediately before the "legend" is written in stone.

I understand your anger. We are all human and we all make mistakes (I know I do, daily) For all of these "offenders," they have worked and trained for years to do this. They have all been "lucky" because no one gets to that level without it. Keep an eye on their careers - see if their attitudes change - we all learn as well. Give him a chance to prove it to you.