Posted on 04/10/2015 5:01:33 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
When an institution sets out to ban something, more often than not the thing they choose to ban simply reflects back on that institutions way of thinking.
So what does it tell us about the Oxford University Press that they are banning authors from using words that refer to pigs?
Yes, you read that correctly. Oxford UP is prohibiting authors from using the words pig, pork, sausage, or other pig-related words because they are afraid of offending Jewish or Muslim readers who consider pigs and pork to be off-limits for religious reasons.
Now, I can understand how Oxford UP would perhaps consider editing out a photo of someone stuffing their face with bacon in a manuscript where another photo could equally serve a purpose, but to eliminate all references to pigs is absurd.
Cutting out references to an entire species of animal isnt an example of careful editorializing to avoid offending a particular group of people who dont believe in eating that animal. What it is, however, is an example of removing language, information, and accuracy from a book to cater to the beliefs of another.
While freedom of press and speech may be a uniquely American ideal, it is absolutely wrong to impose a ban on a subset of information. No matter how hard Muslims or Jews try to imagine it, pigs are a species that exist on planet Earth. Not talking or writing about them isnt going to make them disappear.
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Can we still call them goatphukers?
Now you are insulting goats.
It is impossible to avoid offending Muslims, because they take offense as one of their religious duties. It is a form of jihad.
You are exactly right for a certain number of them. They live to be offended. Same for other groups I will not mention now.
So the French language is illegal because offensive now? Pardon me my French, Mr. muslim liberal, would prefer a dish of fck u instead?
Liberals can eliminate pork from their diet in hopes that ISIS will not cut off their heads, but I will heavily dine on wonderful pulled pork while I reload my ammo for the forthcoming war with radical islam, which my fellow 90 million American gun owners will make the crusades look like a cakewalk........
“could we ban the words gay marriage because it offend muslims as well?”
Of course not.
Of course, the ludicrous double-standards of the left in this area would be comically funny, if they didn’t attempt to force them upon others.
Seems mostly to be BS, one of those Internet hoaxes based on tiny grains of truth that floats around in circles every few months:
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