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>>Why only black people can say the word nigger? I think >>the law makers should make the word nigger illegal. >>anybody whether black, white, jewish, arab, >>chinese,indian, hispanic, etc say that word it will >>cause hatred. the law makers should ban that word > >Well, that would certainly end Quentin Tarantino's >career, wouldn't it? > >Saleem...are you the same person who in another thread >was recently lamenting the "violation" of your free >speech "rights?" Yet here you are, advocating the >violation of everyone else's. To ban a word under the >law would violate the First Amendment. But that >wouldn't matter, because it would be unenforcable. The >use or non-use of offensive terminology is strictly a >matter of the individual conscience, and many great >thinkers have pointed out that there are only two >forces capable of acting at that level...one of which >we wouldn't have the manpower to employ. > >It is ironic and interesting that in advocating the >banning of the word, you must use it twice yourself. > >I find it interesting that in the discussion on the >show, nobody mentioned slurs directed at >others--different ethnicities, professions, sexual >orientations, and so on have their own buzz words, yet >these were never uttered on the show. > >How about this one--? They keep on referring to it as >the most reviled word in our language, yet it may be >uttered on broadcast TV. Outside of "Scared Straight," >I'm not aware of certain less-reviled words being >deliberately so used without a fine attached.
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