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"Amy Guskin"  wrote in message
news:0001HW.C13AB00800299582F0488530{at}news.verizon.net...
> >> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:51:08 -0400, Mac Breck wrote
> (in article ):
>
> > "Josh Hill"  wrote in message
> > news:ps79h21peh4ce30m3ch57ule7b3ttcua3v{at}4ax.com...
> >> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:04:54 -0400, "Mac Breck"
> >>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> "Charlie Edmondson" 
wrote in message
> >>> news:45143268$1{at}news.cadence.com...
> >>
> >>>> I personally feel that anyone that goes to this great
of lengths
> >>>> enforcing political correctness is both racist (in
the 'methinks
> > she
> >>>> doth protest too much' sense) and lacks a sense of humor...
> >>>
> >>> Probably not a racist, but is definitely is acting in knee-jerk
> > fashion,
> >>> and lacks a sense of humor.
> >>
> >> There's nothing politically correct or knee-jerk about refraining
from
> >> racist jokes and slurs. They're deemed socially unacceptable
because
> >> they reinforce racist sentiment and racial animosity and so
encourage
> >> the harm they cause -- discrimination, lynchings, slavery, mass
> >> extermination -- and because it is both cruel and cowardly to
exclude
> >> from the group someone who's sole sin is being a member of a
minority.
> >
> > People these days take offense far, far too easily, and every day it
> > gets worse.
> >
> >
> >> It's no accident that society now considers these jokes such a
serious
> >> offense that to tell one in public is to risk one's career.
> >
> > Society doesn't know where to stop, and goes off the deep end,
taking
> > things to utterly ridiculous extremes.  Society is out of control,
and
> > is acting out of fear disguised as compassion.  It's the fear of
> > litigation.  It's the fear of reprisals in the form of violence over
and
> > perceived slights.  Person A says something, and Person B takes it
in
> > the worst possible way, shakes their fist in the air and generally
acts
> > like a lunatic, makes threats and demands an apology.
> >
> > The whole thing just makes me sick. <<
>
> The fact that you're arguing for the right to say "nigger" just makes
me
> sick.

I am NOT arguing for the right to 'arguing for the right to say
"nigger."'  ...and I'm outta here.

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Mac Breck .
                                                                           
                             
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