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To: connell

It is ironic. Yes, people have a legal right to use offensive terms toward others. And people have a right to ask others not to use offensive terms. What’s so confusing about that?

If one wants to make an argument that an individual or an organized group shouldn’t attempt to influence others’ speech ... well, okay, make the argument. But it has nothing to do with anyone’s Constitutional rights.


58 posted on 01/27/2008 9:03:23 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Gently alluding to the indisputably obvious is not gloating." ~Richard John Neuhaus)
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To: Tax-chick

In a way, though, I understand some of what is going on here. The left has been waging war on speech for a long time. Much of this is found in their PC insanity, which they take to an absurd degree. This causes a reflexive pushback on our side to anything that sounds remotely PC. The pushback is automated at this point. Frankly-—while I do think that the n-word just crosses so many lines that it should transcend the day-to-day battle of PC vs. freedom-—I do at least understand the impulse to push back. In most cases, I share it, but not this.


61 posted on 01/27/2008 12:44:08 PM PST by connell (I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand)
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