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It is March 11th, 2003, in Eglin Air Force Base, northwest Florida.
A C-130 Transport plane slowly cuts across the still morning sky.
The air is calm, the sky is hazy but clear.
The plane is clearly visible through high-powered lenses.
A sled falls from the plane. Tied to the sled is a conventional weapon with a power generation potention equivalent to 21,000 pounds of TNT. It is nicknames MOAB, the Massive Ordinance Air Burst.
Under normal test conditions, the device is guided to its target by satellite - on board computers use overhead information to regulate fins controlling tilt and yaw, pinpointing the target to within 15 feet of the designated point of impact.
However, for this test, the targetting mechanism has been reconfigured.
This time, the US Military has secured the services of Bindrah. Armed with a laptop and a wireless internet connection, he will type some of the most ignorant fucking shit, pulling out the lamest fucking excuses, known to man, beast, or lower life form, into a completely undeserving message board, until the bomb explodes, leaving a square-mile area crushed, smoked, and destroyed.
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Originally posted by astro Out of curiosity just what is “hate speech” definition wise?
I’m a member of the smallest minority group. (Only about 4% of the population has red/orange hair). Does that mean when my wife gets mad at me and calls me Pumpkin Head she’s guilty of hate speech?
I think that the only reason these “hate” words have any power,
is because we give them power. I am of a certain ethnic group, (W.O.P.) and have friends of different ethnicities and creeds. We use epithets to address each other all the time, if for anything to laugh at the sillyness and stupidity of it all.
When somebody uses these word SERIOUSLY, all they do is showcase their ignorance and stupidity, and is usually a call for attention.
I once had a friend from England tell me “I’ve been wanting bum a fag all night, but I’m trying to quit.” HILLARITY ensued. (I’d heard him refer to asses as “bums” on several occasions.)
Bindrah, I’ve read a few of your Pit threads, and the thread which Czarcasm linked to. You mentioned in one of your other threads that you don’t use capital letters because you’re too lazy to do so. To me, not only do proper grammar and capitalization make what you have to say easier to read, they’re also an indication of how whether you’re willing to show us basic respect. Continuing to use certain after you’ve been told they’re offensive also shows a lack of respect. In fact, it shows you’re willing to be insulting.
So tell me, why should we be thrilled about a person who shows the rest of us disrespect and contempt sticking around? This can be an incredibly open, accepting, interesting, and fun community, but one of the primary rules here is, “Don’t be a jerk.” If you don’t want to abide by it, that’s your privilege, but it’s also the privilege of the people who run the board to decide you can be a jerk somewhere else.
You have choices – use them. You’ve also been told what the consequences of some of those choices will be, so, if you still decide to make them, don’t complain about the consequences.
I say if one gay (its HOMOSEXUAL!)… If one Homosexual man (THATS SEXIST!)… if one homosexual woman (Men have feelings too!)… If one homosexual person of no specific gender, can call another homosexual person of no specific gender a particular word and isnt offended by it, then i say whats the harm in saying it yourself?
I tried doing a fag once, but it didn’t really work for me…
Umm… cigarette - this isn’t hate speach right? I mean, I don’t approve of people getting cancer, but that’s their business, I don’t want to interfer or insult them.
