That the making of ill-considered homophobic comments doesn't in itself directly cause major harm? I think anyone with a sense of proportion understands that using these slurs is bad, it should be discouraged and hopefully gradually extinguished, but is not catastrophic (thankfully, because it continues to happen).
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