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Call People What They Are
If a man robbed you, what would you call him?
Would you describe him as a nice man?
Would you say the gentleman took away your money?
Who among you would not say he is a thief?
Is it wrong to call a fool a fool?
Is it wrong to call a wicked person a wicked person?
Is it wrong to call a liar a liar?
Is it wrong to call a murderer a murderer?
Is it wrong to call a rapist a rapist?
Is it wrong to call a homosexual a homosexual?
I must answer these questions with an emphatic no.
Why should I not call you what you are?
Your speech and action defile you.
Some people are just partial and dishonest.
Would you describe him as a nice man?
Would you say the gentleman took away your money?
Who among you would not say he is a thief?
Is it wrong to call a fool a fool?
Is it wrong to call a wicked person a wicked person?
Is it wrong to call a liar a liar?
Is it wrong to call a murderer a murderer?
Is it wrong to call a rapist a rapist?
Is it wrong to call a homosexual a homosexual?
I must answer these questions with an emphatic no.
Why should I not call you what you are?
Your speech and action defile you.
Some people are just partial and dishonest.
Published 23rd Oct 2021
| Edited 27th Mar 2024
Author's Note
Some people feel that it is wrong to call a person what he or she really is.
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To Pittinix
The thing about this poem is, all the other examples are bad things. So in the context of the poem, you are doing far more than calling a homosexual a homosexual. You are equating homosexuals with thieves, fools, wicked people, liars, murderers, and rapists. Pretending that you are merely making an innocuous statement, while in reality you are making a far different kind. One far from innocuous. I'm sorry my friend, but your own poem fails the "fully honest" test. You praise hate and heartbreak. That is a heartbreaking thing to know about anyone.
The thing about this poem is, all the other examples are bad things. So in the context of the poem, you are doing far more than calling a homosexual a homosexual. You are equating homosexuals with thieves, fools, wicked people, liars, murderers, and rapists. Pretending that you are merely making an innocuous statement, while in reality you are making a far different kind. One far from innocuous. I'm sorry my friend, but your own poem fails the "fully honest" test. You praise hate and heartbreak. That is a heartbreaking thing to know about anyone.
Spot on. Thank You for calling it out Write-on
This unfortunately is far too common for those hiding behind the banner of 'telling like it is'- mentioning the non-binary along with criminals, thugs and the low lives
This unfortunately is far too common for those hiding behind the banner of 'telling like it is'- mentioning the non-binary along with criminals, thugs and the low lives
A thief did not comment, a fool did not comment, a wicked person did not comment, a liar did not comment, a mudrerer did not comment, and a rapist did not comment, but homosexuals commented. So whomever the cap fit let them wear it.
This is the second poem I have seen by you, and the first was also anti gay. You would appear to have made it into one of your "issues." And if something unpleasant happened recently involving a heterosexual person, a poem equating all heterosexual persons with murderers, rapists, liars, fools, and wicked persons would be just as dishonest and wicked, even if the person writing it felt terribly aggrieved, or was hurt or traumatized badly. Your poem presents an equation. It is a wicked and dishonest equation. There is nothing to say which will change the truth of that.
I am now bored of this conversation, and withdraw my awareness of it. I care not to be aware of you either, at least not within the context of this poem, so good day to you as well, unless or until we were to speak again later upon some other subject.
I am now bored of this conversation, and withdraw my awareness of it. I care not to be aware of you either, at least not within the context of this poem, so good day to you as well, unless or until we were to speak again later upon some other subject.
