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Date Posted: 22:48:06 09/16/07 Sun
Author: Deep Diction
Subject: Re: Is an ethnic slur an ethnic slur, even if it isn't?
In reply to: Lynx 's message, "Re: Is an ethnic slur an ethnic slur, even if it isn't?" on 22:40:05 09/16/07 Sun

>>>Like you, Rom, I must come down on the side of free
>>>speech. Always.
>>
>>Always? What if you were black, and your boss said
>>loudly, "Boy, they sure have been hiring a lot of
>>n***ers around here lately." Would you be offended?
>>What if your boss said that while you were applying
>>for a promotion, and you didn't get the position?
>>Wouldn't you think that would imply you were being
>>discriminated against, even if it wasn't explicit?
>
>DD, I am not a young woman. While I am not black, I
>have been through some situations not unlike what you
>describe. Whether or not I was offended was the least
>of it. I have been on the butt end of discrimination.
> If you think the PC revolution has saved us from all
>that, I have to disagree.
>
>So, yeah, always. Too much PC-speak falls into the
>area of "saying it's so will make it so", and I can't
>go there. Free speech always.

I didn't say it's saved us from all discrimination. But would you rather be treated the way women were in the 1950s?

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