Randall Kennedy

On the other hand, that person has discriminating taste

oh, that means something very different.

That means that the person differentiates in a way that shows that they understand the difference between excellent, good, and not so good.

And we think that that's a good thing.

So words can have different... Words can mean different things in different contexts.

It seems to me that that's something that actually...

we ought to recognize and talk about.

No, no.

I'm going to resist that a little bit because the whole idea of slurs.

Slurs change.

Yankee was a slur.

Yankee was a slur in 18th century United States.

Slur today.

New York Yankees.

I'm a Yankee fan.

I'm a Yankee fan.

Um, queer, queer, uh, you know, you know, and this is in, in, in, in my lifetime, there was a time, you know, you queer and people would really run away from it.

And that was, you know, a bad thing.

And then thank goodness, uh, gay liberation movement, gay liberation movement.

Basically, we're not going to run away from this.