No, that’s not familiar at all. I may be misremembering what word she read. It could have been Wop. It was one of the two.
Thanks though!
JohnT, you’ve gotten that all wrong. I didn’t defend any rudeness; I asked why someone else had no problem spelling out one terrible epithet in their post while censoring out another. Oh, and I said the the awful person depicted in that post should have to pay a real price for truly rude and abusive behavior. Which one of those points bothers you so much you had to come in and be a white knight, and why?
Again you spend a 100 words defending your non use of four asterisks.
The Straight Dope isn’t where you come to act stupid, son. That’s Facebook. Take your shtick there.
So I’m “son” now, am I? Instead of engaging with what I was asking a third party about, and it was a serious question, you just blew me off with gratuitous insults. That’s real smart and real classy of you, Pops.
Again: If the third party I was responding to felt that one epithet was so bad it had to be blanked out, why did they spell out the other like it was nothing at all? Go ahead and count the letters and syllables in this message too, Pops. I do not have a shit to give about it.
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Dude, shut up. Seriously, go pound sand you racist fucknugget.
Oh, and I decided to be insulting because of [reasons]. 
I’m sure you’ll understand, it’s because I don’t go along with the stupid notion that the fnugget-bomb must always be censored these days, even when it’s quoting a third party who is obviously a racist asshole, and because they’re equally offensive as dehumanizing slurs against whole groups of innocent people. But Farmer Jane has no trouble with spelling out the first one while self censoring the other. I wonder why that is?
I’m not sure if you’ve picked up on this yet, but that “third party” you’re responding to posted that nearly a decade ago.
Yikes. Okay.
Two stories:
- In sixth grade, I had the strictest teacher of my life. It was a self-contained advanced class, and he made sure that we slackers who hadn’t previously had to work hard had to work our asses off every day. It was really hard, and I cried, and he was okay with making kids cry, and honestly I was okay with it too because he was an amazing loving teacher.
One day, Johnny (a spoiled smug rich kid) decided to pick on Phil (a poorer classmate), so he made a petition to pass around: “SIGN HERE IF YOU HATE PHIL.” Someone told the teacher, who confronted Johnny in front of the class: “Okay, Johnny, if you think you’re so much better than everyone else, I’ll give it to you.”
The teacher then grabbed Johnny’s desk and chair and placed them on front of the table in front of the room. Johnny had to sit up there for the rest of the day, and when other kids passed by, we genuflected at his feet before continuing, with the teacher’s approval.
I mean, damn. Johnny was awful, but damn.
- This one is less ambiguous. I had a high school history teacher who was kind of an idiot, almost certainly a sports coach who was given a history class to justify his salary. When he was bored, he would choose a quiet, shy student in the class and accuse them of some misbehavior, like talking or eating in class, and start berating them in front of everyone. Inevitably other students would speak up in the shy student’s defense, at which point the teacher would turn his rage on them, telling them, “You need to be quiet! How are they ever going to learn to stand up for themselves?”
I’m not racist; whether I’m a fucknugget or not is a matter of opinion.
Why do you think one of the very seriously insulting words in that older message should be bleeped, but the other one shouldn’t? And how does pointing it out make me so rude that I’m a fitting target for your righteous rage?
moderating:
While mentioning them is certainly less offensive than using them, I ask you, as a moderator, to refrain from typing out the “n-word”. I don’t think there’s ever any need to do so, you can make it clear what you are quoting without including that word.
And please don’t insult other posters in MPSIMS.
Because while both of those words are too rude to use in MPSIMS, one of them is enough worse than the other that you should refrain from posting it.
No, I don’t intend to go and re-write Mark Twain, who wrote a century ago in a different environment. But you are writing today, and today that’s not acceptable discourse.