I am anti-censorship. You have the right to say whatever you damn well please. Do you see? No one made a law restricting the use of any word. Want to call people spics, niggers, and other bad names? Go ahead. You can’t be arrested for it. But using insulting, derogatory, racist terms does not make someone some kind of anti-PC freedom fighter. It makes that person a jerk, an idiot, a bigot, a loser, a highly offensive individual. Be offended by that or not. I was just exercising my free speech.
PORTAJOHN - Why are you defending the right to call someone a towel-head so dearly? It can’t be censorship, since NO ONE IS PREVENTING YOU FROM USING THE WORD. So why is it so important to use the expression?
In this thread, we are not saying it should be illegal to use the words, just that it is not polite or right to use them. Journalists and politicians and other public figures who wish to be thought polite and enlightened supporters of freedom and non-bigots should not use them.