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BainsBane

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16. Here are the facts
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 07:53 PM
Jun 2014

Certain members insist there is nothing wrong with using that word and similar language. If anyone, such as myself, objects we are "rabid" and "irrational," a RWer advocating censorship. Suggesting that people moderate their language is authoritarian and no different from censorship.

A few days later, someone posts the score of the game. Common courtesy demands censorship. That people don't show adequate respect for what certain people (who clearly consider themselves more important than those targeted by bigoted language they champion ) want is an outrage.

What they justify and what they object to shows quite clearly where their priorities lie. They insist freedom requires no restrictions on bigoted vulgarities, but a soccer game is just too important not to have the results censored.

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Perchance, can you link to a post that states this? MannyGoldstein Jun 2014 #1
I think this is a reference to here: thucythucy Jun 2014 #3
Precisely. BainsBane Jun 2014 #4
Spot on. Sheldon Cooper Jun 2014 #13
Thanks. MannyGoldstein Jun 2014 #15
Here are the facts BainsBane Jun 2014 #16
I strongly agree with your contention that those positions are contradictory MannyGoldstein Jun 2014 #17
It's fucking delicious, isn't it? Sheldon Cooper Jun 2014 #2
How would you know? BainsBane Jun 2014 #6
No no no. My problem is that I'm "socially inept"! Sheldon Cooper Jun 2014 #12
I was like wait wut? MadrasT Jun 2014 #14
Fill me in--I just got off work ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #5
spoil alerts. the whole of gd has been taken over by spoiler alerts. give us a breather anyway, as seabeyond Jun 2014 #7
See post 3. thucythucy Jun 2014 #8
Great line BainsBane Jun 2014 #9
Be my guest. thucythucy Jun 2014 #10
Oh thanks ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #11
and truly moronic Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #18
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