AF-am Group: Are people really going to bat for Bill Maher on DU?

[LanternWaste]

50. I consider myself pretty damned stupid if I called them hypocrites.

"I'm calling out the hypocrisy of anyone who both uses a word, AND condemns its use..."

I remember a wonderful evening about twenty years ago. One of my closest friends had just finished his enlistment duty in the Marines and he invited me to a party he was throwing with a lot of other Marines. These guys were pretty nice, and called each other "jarhead" all evening long. I got pretty drunk and wound up using the term myself. As politely as marine can, they dissuaded me from ever using the term again, telling me they had earned the right to use it, while I hadn't.

I consider myself pretty damned stupid if I called them hypocrites for their own use of it among themselves; but then again, I don't pretend to be oppressed because I choose freely to avoid particular word usages.