08-09-2009, 04:11 AM
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Seemingly Silenced
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Everett, WA
Posts: 2,312
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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
well if that isn't a huge fucking inequity. then again i suppose it's somehow less offensive to say things like:
spic, wop, kike, beaner, chink, gringo, gook, raghead, wog?
at any rate, abrogating free speech for the sake of an ethnic slur is idiotic. people will find a way to inject malice into their vocabulary without the likes of racial epithets.
if you're going to forcibly trim accepted vocabulary, do it under the auspices of curtailing flaming instead of preventing people from seeing something they might find offensive.
when it's offensive BECAUSE it's inflammatory, remove it.
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The best thing you've ever posted. I second this 100%.
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