B-b-but, did anyone notice my pun?
Lyre. You’re just trying to make me feel better.
Don’t worry, I feel great. Because all day I’ve been thinking about how clever we all are, chuckling while confronting crowds of acquisitive cretins.
Further clarification, if you’ll excuse my fat Darsh arse: “Hate speech” in this context means directing such terms at someone? Is “Eskimo” hate speech on the grounds that some Arctic-Americans claim that the term is derogatory – whether casually uttered or directed at a person?
No, it just means general usage of the terms. It doesn’t have to be directed at another poster.
Mind, I say “general usage,” but context and intent do count. Nobody’s getting banned for discussing the use of the word “nigger” in the works of Mark Twain, obviously. “Intentionally pejorative usage,” might be a better term.
I think I’ve been here too long. My first reaction was to check the Pit list to see who’d already started the “Let’s see if we can discuss the use of the word “nigger” in the works of Mark Twain until someone slips up and gets warned” thread.
“Nigger” has a massive amount of historical baggage associated with it, though – mainly in the USA but you would need to be culturally deaf not to be quite sensitive about it on a US-based board. (Mind you, there’s a George MacDonald Fraser army story where a couple of sergeants are politely disagreeing in the Mess whether a certain historical character should have referred to Afghans as “niggers”, and the pipe-sergeant saying that of course “niggers” was wrong… the term should have been “wogs”. But that was in the late 1940s.) Other terms might be less clear-cut, I was thinking. I guess we find out when the warnings start getting handed out.
I would never advocate killing all the Muslims. That would clearly be wrong.
But would it be OK to advocate killing the ones who commit terrorist acts? After a fair trial of course.
What if I substituted the word ‘lawyers’ for ‘Muslims?’
There is a special rule that bans Shakespearean hate speech.
Is it okay to call a poster a “lyre”, in order insinuate they have the mysterious melodic qualities of that instrument?
Not a bad pun, but a little too overt. You really belted it out, though.
Well, Metallica and I were going through a rough patch. I kind of stopped listening as much once Jason Newstead left, so I hadn’t bought the new ones with Robert Trujillo.
Many insults are permissible in The Pit.