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More ways to call Hillary Clinton the C-Word

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  • Saturday, January 26, 2008 05:59 AM

    about mother-fucking and other commands

    Of course, were I to call someone a "mother-fucker", I wouldn't be stating a belief that said person has sex with his mother. What I would be stating is "You are as disgusting as someone who would fuck his own mother." Likewise cock-sucker, nigger-lover, etc.

    Words have power. Even if we forget what they really mean when we say them.

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