[HerzogAEH]

My response to Time magazine’s July 14 cover story.

[goldstategop]

We can't have intelligent literature - let alone American classics since God knows - someone will be offended! It wasn't like that when I went to college. Today the wiser person knows enough to keep their head down than let the thought police punish them for being "too honest." As a result our cultural and moral life suffers.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[skeeter]

I read Huck Finn a dozen times as a kid - it is a wonderful story & I still have my copy.

Pity the tiny mind that can't think past the use of a single word.

[GOP_Raider]

On another website I debated with a “learned” liberal in which I asserted that this type of political correctness is thought control, and the lib of the great unwashed considered PC rhetoric “good manners”.

Now, if one wants to go way way back, back to Hobbes (I believe) who considered that what man though was “good” and “evil” were, put simply, things that felt pleasurable were “good” and anything painful was “bad”. We see here that the “N word” is “painful” therefore it’s bad.

[Mercat]

My son has a very high IQ but as a child was not interested in reading. I used to read to him, starting a book and then he would wait until I had tucked him in and left the room to turn the light back on and secretly read the rest. The first book I read to him was Huckleberry Finn, in full dialect with all the words. Later I read Alice in Wonderland and then most of the Oz books. At 28 he still doesn’t read a lot for recreation but he can quote from Shakespeare and sing from Gilbert and Sullivan. So I’m very fond of HF.

[deport]

It will only get worse or so it seems.

Dallas County meeting turns racial ("black hole" now a "racist" term)

Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black hole" because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.

Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a "white hole."

That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.

[WorkingClassFilth]

As I understand it, the furor today over the use of the word nigger all boils down to the past connotations of domination, separatism, and hatred mostly more than a century old. The fact that many American blacks currently use the word with great frequency severely deflates the claimed 'sensitive' racist aspects of the word. In brief, the real meanings - in modern use today - have become lost over time and are newly imbued with new 'in-group' meanings complete with a reversed racist animus from blacks towards whites - in effect, a private identity code word that excludes use by any group other than blacks. Private speech no longer available to any but a privileged elite.

This is unfortunate. Like the modern day hijacking of the word gay, English has been shin of the free use of many forceful words. For me, and most Americans that live in cities, the cruel racial meanings of nigger died decades ago and the word has been laid to rest alongside institutional racism. All well and good - if only ignorant urban blacks would either shut up or get some class, too.

So, in terms of equality, the only thing left to mourn is the inability to use the now racially cleansed word as a denigrator of specific classes of people other than blacks. If I had my druthers, free use of the new and liberated word niggers would be perfectly just as an adjective for the MSM, Academe and countless other leftist tyrants.