(07-18-2019 01:29 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(07-18-2019 01:07 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(07-18-2019 01:01 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(07-18-2019 12:27 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(07-18-2019 11:37 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  93, and Lad, you are definitely part of the Thought Police, although I think Thought Militia would be a better description. Like Hitler's Brown shirts, you stand ready and willing to attack where you see a need.

One of them asked Tanq where he thought he got the RIGHT to use words like short bus. I think if people who think like that can, they will modify the Constitution to outlaw certain words that, in their minds, have no lawful use. Then we will have Thought Police, for real.

Scary to me that half the nation thinks like that. And THAT half thinks half the other half are racist deplorables, so whatever happens to them is only what they deserve, racist bastards.

Dude... I was being completely tongue-in-cheek when I "granted" Tanq the "right" to use those crummy terms. (Tanq, when I call those words crummy I am referring to their use as it pertains to disabled people, cool?). Did you miss that it was tongue-in-cheek? I'm pretty sure there was no other instance where I questioned his RIGHT to use those words. It's a free country and I believe in the 1st amendment. He can say just about anything he wants and I support his right to do so. He can use terms that disparage disable people to his heart's content.

Dude is a pejorative term. You cannot use language like that because you never know who might take offense.

I do. It is demeaning t call me dude. You whippersnappers do that all the time.

But I didn't even notice the post where you granted the right. It was the one where you asked why he thought he had the right to use those terms.

Hey, if you jump up to confront people on their words, you ARE the Thought Militia. Maybe the Speech Militia.

So Trump and his supporters are the speech militia? Per Tanq, they’re confronting people because they use the word Nazi.

Edit: and what about parents who teach their children not to curse or call people names? Or what about the head of HR, who would definitely fire me for using a racial slur? Or what about the government who would hold me liable for screaming fire in a crowded theater, should someone get hurt?

As for the head of HR, he has to live in the world your guys created, where a racial slur is firing grounds. Didn't use to be. You guys changed the world. I am sure you are proud, Cowboy. I mean, Dude. I mean, whatever is OK with you.

I think it's a net plus, TBH. I have concerns over the "cancel culture" in general but I'm just fine with people losing their jobs over using a racial slur.

Back when I was in high school all my friends used the term "gay" in a pejorative fashion. The term "f*g* was thrown around freely as well. Are these the good-old-days that you pine for? I'm ashamed to have taken part in that and I recognize how hurtful that was for certain individuals in our orbit.