XPost: rec.arts.tv   
   From: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net   
      
   In article <1173384994.762971.168220@64g2000cwx.googlegroups.com>,   
    "Richard Fangnail"  wrote:   
      
   > If somebody says "n*gger" we have to look at why they said it.  You   
   > can't equate a black rapper saying it with Michael Richards saying it   
   > with George Wallace saying it as it means different things.   
   >   
   > Wikipedia for that episode says a town in NY is trying to make it   
   > illegal to say "n*gger" which is a waste of time and would be struck   
   > down by the US Supreme Court, unless everybody's crazy.  Washington or   
   > Oregon tried to ban sports teams named after Indians.   
      
   There was a movement afoot, maybe a decade ago, on college campuses, to   
   outlaw certain words entirely (this is actually TV related because I saw   
   it on a talk show -- maybe Donahue? I know the host was such an idiot he   
   thought it was a good idea).  It would have been TOTAL zero tolerance.   
   NO use of the words, by anyone, for ANY reason, would be tolerated.   
      
   Of course they hadn't thought this through.  If NO use is allowed, how   
   do you tell people what not to say in the first place?  How do you   
   report them?  How do you punish them?  One imagines handbooks and   
   tribunals referring obliquely to the offending terms . . .   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)