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I believe it does. rofl

Well, I'm still alive.
Headed to a physician later today, after the ballots tho. sweatdrop

As for racial slurs... I do uphold that a person has as much right to make themselves look bigoted or small minded as they want. Just as anyone who finds those slurs offensive has a right to express that. I've taken numerous people to task for using terms I find offensive around me before... not just limited to slurs.

Simply put, their right to be asshats is just as absolute as my right to to treat them as such.

Now, mind you, it is far from polite, and if a forum has rules against such words, then there you have it, by willingly entering an area with restrictive speech, you are agreeing to restrict your speech, or have announced your implicit intention to change the rules of that area.

I'm less irritated by her usage and more irritated by her claims that it isn't bigoted at all.

My parents are now forbidden from EVER speaking to me about ANYTHING even REMOTELY related to politics EVER again, for as long as any of us lives. Hooray.

Because I was sitting in the living room reading a book and my dad woke up, sat down to the laptop, and started telling me about how he and my mother nearly voted McCain, but his conscience wouldn't let him, so he voted for an even more racist third-party McCain clone, and that it'll ruin the country if Obama gets in office because he's a black socialist.

Then he had the gall to ask me why I "seemed" upset at the idea that he would even CONSIDER voting for someone as anti-woman and anti-GLBT when he has three daughters, one of whom is a lesbian.

After I voted, my mother demanded to know who I'd voted for, then started attacking me for voting Obama, telling me he's a black Muslim terrorist and will destroy the country, and he's from Kenya and she's seen his birth certificate saying so, and I'm not allowed to disagree because she's entitled to her opinion.

So they're never allowed to discuss politics with me or around me. Ever. If I don't know they're voting for people who want to make me a second-class citizen and strip me of my rights, then I won't have to feel betrayed.

To make it worse, it's my first presidential election, and I'd already sent in an absentee ballot, which apparently wasn't counted, 'cause my name was on the list at the school as having not voted. I was so excited when I sent my absentee ballot, then to find out it hadn't been counted, and having to go vote as a CHORE, then being attacked for my vote just sucked.

So anyone slightly amused at all the election stuff?

All of my friends on FB, even though we're all mostly Canadian, have their statuses changed to "Watching election, go Obama". xD

I AM FULL OF GLEE AND IGNORING THE UNPLEASANT REALITY THAT WILL HIT COME MORNING. biggrin biggrin biggrin

*comforts*
I'm sorry; good luck with it sad