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To: Paul Smith who wrote (148647)	11/1/2010 5:38:59 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 543569

I guess it's all relative. So is the point you are making that we should be so PC no one is offended? And if not, what should the limits of this PC world be? Are you going to define them for me? Am I going to define them for you? I'm not sure what you are saying here. Are you suggesting either commie or teabagger is hate speech? Quite frankly I never would have considered either to be. But you brought it up- so are they both hate speech? We don't use the "n" word because of a very long history of using black people as the "n" word. And yet people use the "n" word all the time- in the South I heard it constantly, and the KKK likes it a lot, so it's not like you get arrested for this most of the time. "That is the same as if I were to say that I think the term "commie" is adorable (you indicated you thought that was a bad term) and that because I thought it was adorable, it was fine to use all the time. While free speech exists, so does the concept of hate speech. We as a society do not use certain terms like n**ger because we know that it is offensive to many and offensive words like that are inappropriate."