Let's make sure we have this "straight"...

... no pun intended.

We've already been informed by society that it's a very bad, thoroughly inflammatory and racist act to call someone a "nigger" (We refuse to use the politically correct, mealy-mouthed phrase "the n-word", as we're having a frank discussion here, and we're all reasonable adults), unless the person using the word is a prominent black rap star, in which case it's apparently OK, as they're only "keeping it real". As a matter of fact, use of that word has been used to charge people who utter it during the commission of a crime with "hate crime" enhancements, as if committing a crime against a person of a different race were somehow worse than committing the exact same crime against a person in one's own racial group.

Well now, courtesy of prominent openly gay gossip columnist (and assault victim) Perez Hilton, we've also been informed that it's a very bad, thoroughly inflammatory and homophobic act to call someone a "faggot" and use of the word should be used to charge people who utter it during the commission of a crime with hate crime enhancements (Will this now be "the f-word"?), unless one is a prominent openly gay gossip columnist irritated at a presumably straight black male musician, of course. In that case it's apparently OK, as Hilton, in his infantile thinking, "thought it would be the worst thing he could possibly say".

Well, he pretty much got that one right, as his hateful words earned himself a sock in the face from the musician's tour manager the other night in Toronto, Canada.

Substituting one disgusting slur that denigrates an entire group of people for another isn't exactly what we would call "enlightenment" on your part, Mr. Hilton. We don't think you should have been assaulted for your poor choice of words, but you're definitely not helping out your fellow gays very much by your juvenile actions, which have exposed you as just another self-important, hypocritical "activist" who lives by their own "do as I say, not as I do" rules (See Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson). You have now officially given up any right to condemn anyone else who ever uses that word, sir, no matter in what context.

You may now go back to your important, life-changing day job of critiquing celebrities' outfits and dating choices.


UPDATE: We were seemingly prescient about the phrase "f-word" now joining its PC "n-word" comrade. From Hilton's apology, posted on his website:

"The "F" word will never be uttered from my lips again."

2 letters down, only 24 left that can be employed as code for words that have been deemed too dastardly to print, even if one is dispassionately discussing their use by someone else. Personally, we prefer that racists and homophobes be allowed to use whatever slurs they wish whenever they feel like it, as those microcephalic individuals are then much easier to spot.