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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 11/29/2006 : 15:14:47
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YO! I'm just about up-to-hear listening to the din about the banning of the N-word. Hello!!! Sounds like something George W. Bush and Dick Cheney would think up, along with spiking habeas corpus.
Has-been Michael Richards (I think that's his name.) of "Seinfeld" should be the point of the discussion, not banning speech in America.
There are three words I don't use: the N-Word...the C-Word that relates to females...and the F-Word that relates to homosexuals.
But me, myself and I ban them. I don't need the fucking government to do it for me.
Oh, but I DO like to say fuck and Fox News Channel.
OY!
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Edited by - Orwellingly Yurz on 11/29/2006 15:16:26
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 11/29/2006 : 17:26:22 [Permalink]
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How is the government banning the N-word? I can't find a reference.
Okay, I'd be against any governmental banning. But I'm glad people are starting at last to see it's not an appropriate word for casual conversation. I always disagreed with African-Americans such as rappers and others, who claimed it was okay for them to use the word, but not for others. In effect, what they are doing is legitimizing the word in the minds of bigots.
In no way would I support an official banning, nor even a total unofficial one. I'm not ready to see Huckleberry Finn, or references to it, censored because a central character is referred to as "nigger Jim." The useage was historically appropriate. Also, how would someone explain to a newcomer to the debate what "N-word" means, without using the real word, and explaining its hatred-loaded meaning?
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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
529 Posts |
Posted - 11/29/2006 : 18:19:43 [Permalink]
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YO: I'm starting to get the feeling that no one on this site is supposed to express an idea without an accompanying citation or quote from another source. I'm a broadcast kind of guy. Most of what I glean and perceive is what I see or hear on television or radio. Has no one been LISTENING to the din of conversation about banning the N-Word? Just to be clear: there is NO legislation that has yet been written, to my knowledge, that would make it unlawful to utter such an ugly word; however, what I'm trying to convey is, IT'S NOT A GOOD IDEA TO DRAW UP SUCH A BILL THAT WOULD MAKE IT UNLAWFUL IF PASSED BY THE CONGRESS. (Refer to my initiating post on this thread, if you wish.)
Is it necessary for me to parenthetically say each time that, although there is no citation or quote to accompany these remarks, I think the death penalty is not a good social institution, or whatever?
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty
"The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
--Oscar Wilde
"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus
"I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
--Albert Camus
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/29/2006 : 18:41:45 [Permalink]
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OY, I learned long ago that I just can't get away with stating a "fact," almost any fact, without citation on this skeptic site.
It seemed to me earlier that you were opposing actual legislation, and I was very interested in seeing how that would be worded. (Would the bill include the N-word, making a citation of the bill itself illegal?) I'm delighted to now understand that there is no pending bill, and that no citation is required.
As for wishing to eschew citations, I wish you luck in blazing new trails here. Personally, I often use links in order to bolster my points. If I were going to get riled every time someone demanded proof of my statements, I would have left this abode of nitpickers long ago.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 11/29/2006 : 18:58:58 [Permalink]
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quote:
Mooner:
If I were going to get riled every time someone demanded proof of my statements, I would have left this abode of nitpickers long ago.
You could be just saying that...  |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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