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Since this happened in Washington, it’ll be forgotten in 2 seconds. But if it happened in Philly, they’d be talking about it 50 years from now. ‘Hey, remember when that Philly asshole said ‘faggot’ on TV?’

To summarize Puck Buddy’s stance. It wasn’t the amplitude of the homophobic slurs that surprised Mr. Buddy, but the duration of homophobic slur. It’s the difference between a major and a minor homophobe.