The Latin poet Tibullus asked in the first century BCE: Quis fuit horrendos primus qui protulit enses? (Who was the first to invent hideous weapons?)
Well, there is no need to go further when looking for ways to offend, it is enough to resort, for those with a criminal disposition, to use terribly improper weapons ... adjectives and nouns.
How many nouns and adjectives, used as weapons, have caused irreparable damage to myriads of innocents!
At one time it was enough to say: that man is a sorcerer, that woman is an adulteress or, in times of fascism it was enough to report to the political police that a man was making Communist propaganda in order to see him imprisoned, tortured, destroyed! At the fall of Fascism, on the other hand, it was enough to say that a certain person had been a black shirt to decree his death sentence, without appeal.
Nowadays it is enough to repeatedly trumpet, because, as the Latins said “repetita iuvant” (repeating things helps) that one is a racist or worse homophobic, to be able to portray someone like a “monster”and grab some front page headlines.
On Evelyn and my path, someone who specializes in the improper use of adjectives and nouns, a squalid and painful being who can do nothing but insult and defame, brandishes as "homophobes" every single person who he does not like and those who dare to contest the validity of his theses, theses which are indefensible by any logic or education, thesis which he defends only by firing off the word, "homophobe" in his outbursts ...
