'Greed', eh?:
Quark (Armin Shimerman): 'I think I figured out why humans don't like Ferengi'
Sisko (Avery Brooks): 'Not now, Quark.'
Quark: 'The way I see it, humans used to be a lot like Ferengi: greedy, acquisitive, interested only in profit. We're a constant reminder of a part of your past you'd like to forget.'
Sisko: 'Quark, we don't have time for this.'
Quark: 'You're overlooking something, Commander. Humans used to be a lot worse than Ferengi. Slavery, concentration camps, interstellar war; we have nothing in our past that approaches that kind of barbarism. You see? We're nothing like you. We're better.'
-"Star Trek: Deep Space 9"
If 'Swine' is perjorative, then I guess it actually applies to those who use it in that way towards others.
Most 'Anonymous' in 4chan use 'Faggots'/'Fags' towards each other; it's so commonly used, that it's lost it's impact as a so-called 'insult'. It's even considered a common greeting/description to/about other users of that image board.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fag+Cigarette
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_%28food%29
Never smoked in my life. And being equated with a tasty, nourishing, traditional and wholesome foodstuff? Why, thank you for the compliment!
Even 'Context' can be annihilated by mere Geographical differences.
'America and England. Two nations divided by a common language'
-Winston Churchill
And he was half-American.
As a Brit, I love the smell of annihilated arguments - and 'insults' - in the morning. Smells like... superiority. >:D
