Is government preparing us for censorship?
We read:
"The idea that thought and speech are major obstacles to doing what is right isn’t new at all. As recently as the 1980s the one liberty that liberal statists could be counted on defending, at least in the United States of America, is the one spelled out in the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Alas, this was challenged some time ago by Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon of the University of Michigan school of law, in her short but prominently published book, Only Words (Harvard University Press, 1983). In it the good professor argued that words do not deserve the legal protection afforded them by the Constitution since insults and put downs, including jokes, can injure people good and hard. And such injuries should not be protected. The victims would have to pay too high a price for the fact that the law treats such injuries as ‘only words.’”
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Political correctness is censorship plain and simple!!!
But what is worse, is that it only applies to some people and not other people!
Now the term Paddy is a good natured term for an Irishman! But 100 years ago, it was just like the “N” word! And in England and Ireland to this day, it is still a term that can cause a fight. But over the past 100 years the insult of the name was removed and now it is a term that many Irishmen don’t mind and some like.
So what would happen if I suddenly started to use the Historical reference to that name? If the next time I saw or heard that name, I complained to the police and demanded an arrest because I was hurt and the police did arrest that person. Just imagine saying something that you didn’t know was hurtful, and getting arrested for it?
One guy I worked with long ago, on a phone call to his wife, while buying a house, said that they wanted to “jew” them down some more. I do agree that this is a hurtful name, but the guy had never thought of it like that before. And instead of the person that heard it talking to him about it, he complained to Management. The guy narrowly escaped being fired. So now he doesn’t use that term and doesn’t trust people, and especially doesn’t trust Jews, because of that incident.
So how many terms do we use in daily speech, that we can find someone that might object to that term?
Mobius
Most of the things that spew forth from my mouth 'just ain't right'
If anybody looks like they may have been hurt by what I said, I just tell them 'it's ok, I'm a liberal.' Of course, that in itself is a lie, but that's ok, I'm a liberal.
Um, I remember sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me. We all learned this when we were 5. Now mere words are considered a mortal wound. What a way to create a nation of candy asses.
"Now the term Paddy is a good natured term for an Irishman! But 100 years ago, it was just like the “N” word! And in England and Ireland to this day, it is still a term that can cause a fight."Funny, the average settled Paddy doesn't mind referring to a member of the Travelling community as a Knacker!
I would not be surprised at anything this fascist government we have now would do.It is ok to slander and libel G.W.BUSH, but let one word of criticism of ayotollah fuher barry take place and the brown shirted koolaid drinking morons are ready to come after you with torches and pitchforks,, the sooner this administration is in the garbage can of history, the better we will be.
"the sooner this administration is in the garbage can of history, the better we will be."
Good point, but by that time, this country will be totally FUBAR.
"the sooner this administration is in the garbage can of history, the better we will be."
Of course you are referring to the Bush regime.
Of course we refer to the Obama regime.
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