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Old 01-05-2011, 04:59 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Iphinome View Post
There's nothing wrong with that part, they don't want to print out the word, the word is not used in polite society. No problem, one day that article will be looked at to show what our society was like.
and we'll be looked at as a society of wusses and easily offended people.

It's just a word, and using it when it's needed isn't inappropriate. In an article dealing with the controversy surrounding the erasure of 219 instances of it in a famous book, calling a cat a cat is totally justifiable.

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There is nothing wrong with being politically correct now, it shows some manners. Don't try to confuse the absurdity of applying it retroactively with the ideal of not using hateful language in the now.
Look, if I say "this goshdarn n-word is effing mentally challenged", do you really think I'm being polite? don't you understand exactly what I said? aren't you offended (hint: you should be)? Don't I look stupid?

Political correctness is always silly for the following reasons:

- When people use the genuine word today, they're either trying to be offensive on purpose (think KKK or Aryan Nation) or they're referring to the usage of the word before it became hot, as we're doing here, and as the article should be doing.

- Everybody knows exactly what word you're trying to hide. All you're achieving by using a euphemism is asserting your conformance to the current groupthink, and if you genuinely can't stand to look at the real word, that you're lily-livered.

incidentally, notice how I carefully avoided using any word that could offend you to make my point in this post, since I care so much about people's feelings and all that. But I have absolutely no problem using this, or indeed any word, because words are tools and I use the right tool for the job when I need to.

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