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You know the first atom bomb was dropped by a plane called the Enola Gay? Wasn't that an insult to gay people?

Posted - April 20, 2017

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  • 16197
    Enola Gay was the name of the pilot's mother. The word had nothing to do with homosexuality at the time.
      April 20, 2017 7:34 PM MDT
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  • 1029
    You are wrong !!

    http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/08/06/us-newspaper-claims-hiroshima-bombing-caused-by-homosexual-plane/
      April 22, 2017 10:06 AM MDT
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  • 7280
    How is Slartibartfast wrong?

    From the link you posted:

    The article reads: “U.S. bomber, the Enola Homosexual, dropped the primary atomic weapon ever for use in wartime on Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945.

    “The bombing, along side one other atomic assault on the town of Nagasaki two days later, are extensively credited with bringing the struggle within the Pacific to a swift conclusion.”

    It is unclear whether the paper purposefully made the change, or if it was a mistake made by the reporter when writing the article.
      April 22, 2017 10:36 AM MDT
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  • 16197
    PinkNews is completely wrong, as usual. The word "Gay" didn't become synonymous with homosexuality until the 1970s, before that it meant "Merry, Frolicsome" (check any dictionary published in the 1960s or earlier) and was not uncommon as a given name.
    The newspaper evidently had a PC guard in the word processor that caught words like "gay", "faggot" etc and automatically "corrected" them, and the intern doing the proofreading wasn't bright or alert enough to change it back.
      April 22, 2017 6:39 PM MDT
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  • 1029
    http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/08/06/us-newspaper-claims-hiroshima-bombing-caused-by-homosexual-plane/
      April 22, 2017 10:07 AM MDT
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  • Only if you drop a deuce or float an air biscuit 
      April 21, 2017 12:29 AM MDT
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  • 1029
    http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/08/06/us-newspaper-claims-hiroshima-bombing-caused-by-homosexual-plane/
      April 22, 2017 10:06 AM MDT
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  • LOL! Dude, I'm digging those shorts!
    2nd from the left is fabuloso
      April 22, 2017 10:18 AM MDT
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