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Originally Posted by GZire
UT sorry man, but it's too early in the morning to read your entire post. I'll try to answer as shortly as I can.
I know there is a double standard and why it exists. Personally I don't think there should be a double standard and I don't think banning of words/vocabulary goes with what our country stands for.
I think that if you don't like what someone has to say that's fine, but they should be given the opportunity to say it.
The point of this thread was to expose the double standard that exists in our country and to provoke thought on how absurd it is.
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there's a double standard 'cause there needs to be a double standard. most people's minds aren't strong enough to grasp what equality and "colorblindness" actually are, so there has to be a double standard. why do you think affirmative action was created? even the most racist of people should have understood the flaws in their logic, but their minds and hearts weren't, and regardless of what anyone says, still aren't in tune with the fact that i have no more or no less ability than my white counterparts. i bleed red, and i'm an american too. i feel all of the same feelings anyone else does. plain and simple, i'm a human. i deserve to be treated as such.
in a perfect world, there would be no need for civil rights laws, affirmative action programs, and "double standards" when it comes to our syntax. please remember that this "double standard" should and does exist with every other racially-affiliated word or phrase. i wouldn't call a mexican a term like that, nor would i call anyone of any other ancestry something to that effect. it's disrecpetcful, inconsiderate, and moronic. i, however, through all of the crap i and the people with my skin color have had to deal with before me, have more than earned the pass necessary to say that word whenever and where ever i want to.
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