Once you use the euphemism, you have lost the argument before it started. Why? Because who, what ‘good person’, could be against ‘gaiety’, ‘choice’, ‘social justice, ‘peace’?! Are you for war? The Left uses the language skillfully, and the Right is as always clueless. Don’t kid yourself, the front of the culture war is in the sphere of language. Because language affects, defines even, perceptions!
That's sticking the dagger into the heart of the matter.
Who has led the charge of subverting the language? Academia AND the Media. 95% of both have been hijacked by Commies/Fascists/homosexuals, perverts, freaks, and God-less secular humanists.
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" ~ Isaiah 5:20
RE: Once you use the euphemism, you have lost the argument before it started.
Maybe your argument is with today’s dictionaries. They ALL use the word you object to using to refer to homosexuals.
For instance one dictionary defines the word ‘gay’ as :
1. of, pertaining to, or exhibiting sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one’s own sex; homosexual: a gay couple.
2.of, indicating, or supporting homosexual interests or issues: a gay organization.
3. having or showing a merry, lively mood: gay spirits; gay music. Synonyms: cheerful, gleeful, happy, glad, cheery, lighthearted, joyous, joyful, jovial; sunny, lively, vivacious, sparkling; chipper, playful, jaunty, sprightly, blithe. Antonyms: serious, grave, solemn, joyless; staid, sedate; unhappy, morose, grim; sad, depressed, melancholy.
4. bright or showy: gay colors; gay ornaments. Synonyms: colorful, brilliant, vivid, intense, lustrous; glittering, theatrical, flamboyant. Antonyms: dull, drab, somber, lackluster; conservative.
You might want to “take back the culture” all on your own, but I am afraid it’s too late now.
I can still use that word, but I will CLARIFY it in the context that I use it.
“Don’t kid yourself, the front of the culture war is in the sphere of language. Because language affects, defines even, perceptions!”
Amen to that.
Look at every single leftist cultural-destructionist propaganda spiel and find language mutations used to not only shift the goal posts, but completely redesign the field of play to suit their needs.