ggiese said:
The Master said:
For what it's worth, in principal, I agree with both of you, however the real issue was the use of the "n" word...and to further exacerbate the problem K&P basically told all the southerners they were bigoted rednecks (at least thats what I read into it) while he was expressing racial bogotry of his own...and having grown up in the US I've come to understand that American blacks use that word for each other, as a way to defuse it, make it meaningless, but when someone else steps in and uses it, I think it is definitely bigotry...can we expect, next, to be calling the Italians, "wops," and the Jews, "kikes?" And before anyone jumps, I'm not calling either group that, just making a point that racial bigotry is bigotry no matter what your intention, especially if a member of one race or religion uses a flammable and derogatory name for a member of another race or religion...however, I am a member of one of the aforementioned groups, and we don't call each other by those names so it's still a little hard to really understand why the blacks here in the US call each other the "n" word...it's a nasty word no matter who uses it, as are the two I previously mentioned...and, having been on the receiving end of words like that throughout my life, I find it just makes tempers flare, and starts fights...I know I am more militant due to that prejudice, and every time someone refers to anyone of my race/religion with words of that sort, my first instinct is to go punch them out...even if they're bigger than me...so the problem isn't a freedom of speech issue, or the fact that the lobby is for everything other than cigars...it still remains, that it isn't for bigotry of any sort, at any time, whether you read it or not...one last point...comparing what went on to a picture that depicts the very, very slight, upper edge of a woman's areola is like comparing apples to oranges...they're just not the same...emodx said:
AVB said:
MilesMingusMonk said:AVB said:
Agreed.
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