Homophobia : Google Chrome Extension #LoveWins Rewrites Homophobic Slurs

I feel that a browser extension like this violates there right to free speech. If we can say what we want without censorship, so can they

Because OMG, this is about as dumb as not letting a child see a butter knife. Are we not adults? So you see an offensive word, own it. I am a faggot got a problem? Ok but its the haters problem not ours. The only reason these words can offend you is because you let them. We are responsible for how we let people make us feel. Dont want to be offended? Then dont be.

Phobia means fear, Homophobia means fear of gay men, homophobic means a man or (woman) having fear of gays. But what are they so fearful? And what’s so scary about them? Are the questions many overlooked…or is it? Some people might say “it’s unnatural!” others may say “because God condemns those acts!” Some might even say “because sex is for opposite genders to make babies!” or ” HIV/AIDS came in the world by them! While all this to some degree may be true, this doesn’t fully explain why the fear? Why the Homophobia? It’s not like gays and lesbians are like living sex zombies that will FORCEFULLY sexually attack every men and women on the street or busting windows to get in your house and rape everyone of the same sex in there? Unless you’re in prison where animalistic behavior truly exist. Lot of homophobic people particularly men, has an inner fear of becoming the very thing they fear. No not being gay…doing homosexual acts. The guys you see who uses random homophobic slurs or harass someone on gay dating sites or even talk about gays all the time has consumed and watched a LOT of gay, bisexual, and transgender porn and many of their friends and partners doesn’t know it for they’re not looking through his phone or under the bed or on his PC history page or anything else. They hate themselves for having the desire to watch or sleep with gay men they feel like they have identity control by demoralizing gay men to feel better about themselves. Kinda like calling a stripper or prostitute a whore or sl*t around their partners or friends to make them feel proud of them…when deep down they want to put their hot dogs inside them.

I’m not sure that this is really a good idea. It reminds me of what my great grandparents use to tell me about prejudice people and their racial slurs. You have people who would outwardly express their racial hatred, so you knew that they were not an advocate for you. They showed you how ugly they really were as a person. Then you had the people who would smile in your face, but were racist and plotted against your civil advancement. When you know the enemy you can do something about it, you can protect yourself. When you know your foe you don’t grow relaxed and pretend that all is well in the world. When they show you who they are, it reminds you that there is still work to be done for equality and tolerance. We need software that works on tracking down these hateful people and allowing others to respond, oppose to changing words and letting them get away with it. Pretending you can take the “power” out of a word doesn’t make sense to me. Derogatory words have a negative history associated. You should never erase history, so you don’t forget what happen to the people who struggle before us. Changing these words feels like we are covering up and not facing what we still need to deal with in today’s society. I think the add-on intent is positive, but not effective in continuing the progressive changes we still need.