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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (81144)	8/18/2010 12:41:34 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Yes. There are certain things you can say that drives most of the rationality out of the response. It doesn't really even matter if you don't use them in a wrong way, as a term of abuse, or a way to attack, you still don't get to say them, even in a rational discussion of the issue, without a serious counter attack, unless perhaps you are a member of a certain group. (The N word can be used in almost any fashion by a black person, esp. a liberal or apolitical black person, but a white talk show host, esp. a non-liberal one, doesn't get any slack) I don't think that's right. As much as discussing such words isn't normally something I'm all that interested in doing, I think people should be able to publicly discuses them, without serious repercussions, but then we live in the real world, not some idealized perfect world, and if your a prominent non-liberal white person, esp. if your on radio or TV, or are a politician, you have to know that any use, even the most academic of uses, can create a firestorm. Most people realize that and self-censor, exactly because they don't want to be the next person driven out. I'd prefer more open communication.