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5. I think the idea of self-censorship is irrelevant. What is horrible about what TRP said...

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Fri Jun 20, 2014, 05:35 PM

Jun 2014

Is not that he didn't mean it in "that way" but precisely that he did mean it in "that way." There is no disconnect here.

Kurt Vonnegut said it very nicely: "We are what we pretend to be. So we must be careful about what we pretend to be." You can take that as saying we become what we pretend or what we pretend is exactly what we always have been. I choose the latter.

It isn't about how the usage of this word gives birth to corruption and abuse. It's that underneath the usage of the word there already exists the corruption and abuse. I think that is the surest way to explain why there is no way to jokingly use epithets.

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Please explain this to me about self censorship because I do not [View all] Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 OP

Some are better at it than others BainsBane Jun 2014 #1

We all have our moments. Some more than others, I understand that Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #2

Bingo wryter2000 Jun 2014 #3

Your last paragraph is the problem in a nutshell. MadrasT Jun 2014 #4

We have some real contortionists around here Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #7

I think the idea of self-censorship is irrelevant. What is horrible about what TRP said... Gravitycollapse Jun 2014 #5

I think you are onto something with that. Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #6

This OP is because I do not understand the OP Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #8

It doesn't make sense because it's a load of crap. redqueen Jun 2014 #9

Yeah-- I just wondered out there and tried to point that out. ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #10

Did you really go in the thread? Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #12

I don't know which thread ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #13

That is the one. It has 21 Recs last I looked. I wonder if it is kids out of school for the summer - Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #14

It's incredibly illogical. ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #15

This is the thing about words for me = I hope I can explain this Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #16

That is one of the dumbest subject lines to ever hit this place Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #11