NO MORE REDSKINS

[sexobon]

Were there any fudge recipe Nazis?

[DanaC]

I really think some people should go read a few history books and learn what nazis actually were.

Someone on a message board suggesting reasons why using a racially loaded word might be offensive is not a nazi.

Now, if I had the power to detain you for using those words, maybe you would have a case. I don't. Clearly.

Quite a few people on here and elsewhere claiming that people should not be offended by such words, on their own or someone else's behalf. Sticks and stones may break our bones and all that. So take some of your own medicine - ignore the people who are telling you the words nigger and retard are offensive. Just ignore them. As long as they have no right to imprison you for using those words then why get so upset?

People also claim they are 'not allowed' to use certain words. Except that isn't really true is it? You are allowed to use those words. Nobody is banging down your door or setting the dogs on you for doing so.

What you actually mean is that you are 'not allowed to use those words without incurring some sort of social consequences'.

Freedom of expression does not protect you from the social consequences of the things you say. If you say something offensive, people will be offended. If you didn't realise that word was going to be offensive to others, then you learned a lesson: that word is something that will cause offence. Whether continue using it once you've realised it is likely to cause offence is entirely your choice. But you are not, nor have you ever been, protected from the other person's anger or disdain.

[sexobon]

Yay! My political correctness Nazi came back. They always come back to the scene of their righteousness to .

[DanaC]

Yeah, my bad. I keep forgetting the cardinal rule: do not feed the troll.

[sexobon]

That's because it's not just what you do, it's who you are.

[DanaC]

Troll feeder?

[DanaC]

I wonder if feeding bread to trolls causes a nutritional imbalance? Maybe there is safe to feed troll food out there. In little bags.

[sexobon]