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Pledge: no more HATE SPEECH[W:72, 161]

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_Sal said:
words can cut deeper than a knife

when someone is the butt of a joke and ridicule, it is abuse if they are not strong enough to take it

learning to live with it by toughening up is not a bad thing, but how do you know that you aren't the 90th person to ridicule them that day?

you don't
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If you give a **** what some stranger thinks of you then you're not going to get anywhere. If they don't like you, if they wish to bad mouth you, make fun of you, or whatever, it doesn't matter. They're just background that wants to be heard.
 
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Henrin said:
If you give a **** what some stranger thinks of you then you're not going to get anywhere. If they don't like you, if they wish to bad mouth you, make fun of you, or whatever, it doesn't matter. They're just background that wants to be heard.
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No no no, bad words are the destroyers of psyches.

Did you flunk your reeducation program?

I got an A+







*sarcasm*
 
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Risky Thicket said:
Count me in, Haymarket. I'll take the pledge.
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Me 3.

The backlash to the OP was entirely predictable. It is fascinating to see what tiny price some people refuse to pay in exchange for perhaps making the world a little better place.
 
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Hawkeye10 said:
No no no, bad words are the destroyers of psyches.

Did you flunk your reeducation program?

I got an A+
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I never pass those things. :( I keep thinking **** you, I'll do what I want and can't be arsed to fill in any of the answers on the test.
 
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Henrin said:
I never pass those things. :( I keep thinking **** you, I'll do what I want and can't be arsed to fill in any of the answers on the test.
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As soon as they invent the brain eraser you are ****ed.

You know that right?

Give em what they want.

I learned this watching "Girl Interrupted".

Also Mad Men:

Don: What's wrong with you?
Peggy: I don't know.
Don: What do they want you to do?
Peggy: I don't know.
Don: Yes you do. Do it. Do whatever they say. [leans in and whispers]
Peggy, listen to me, get out of here and move forward. This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened.
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https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mad_Men
 
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The difference between the two camps is that the left are street fighters and the right are gentle ******s.

You can see this dichotomy every day in Congress. Dems lie, cheat, deny, obfuscate, distort, and break any agreement they don't like. When one of them is caught doing something disgusting, they circle the wagons and get dirty. RINO's are gentlemen and honorable idiots. When one of them does something stupid, they throw him under the bus.

There is one rule in politics that the RINO's don't follow: never adopt the lingo of the enemy. Like "progressives". Why would a conservative politician dignify those loons by calling them "progressives" is beyond my ability to understand.

At our level, we are intimidated into cheerfully swallowing the terms of the vocal and aggressive special groups. All of a sudden, it's African-Americans, not blacks. It's "gay", not homosexual. It's "undocumented", not illegal. It's "youths", not black thugs. And on and on...

In a street fight, ******s never win.
 
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legalimmigrant said:
The difference between the two camps is that the left are street fighters and the right are gentle ******s.

You can see this dichotomy every day in Congress. Dems lie, cheat, deny, obfuscate, distort, and break any agreement they don't like. When one of them is caught doing something disgusting, they circle the wagons and get dirty. RINO's are gentlemen and honorable idiots. When one of them does something stupid, they throw him under the bus.

There is one rule in politics that the RINO's don't follow: never adopt the lingo of the enemy. Like "progressives". Why would a conservative politician dignify those loons by calling them "progressives" is beyond my ability to understand.

At our level, we are intimidated into cheerfully swallowing the terms of the vocal and aggressive special groups. All of a sudden, it's African-Americans, not blacks. It's "gay", not homosexual. It's "undocumented", not illegal. It's "youths", not black thugs. And on and on...

In a street fight, ******s never win.
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That is such a "RIGHT ON!" post that I got my eye on u Now.

+1
 
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legalimmigrant said:
The difference between the two camps is that the left are street fighters and the right are gentle ******s.

You can see this dichotomy every day in Congress. Dems lie, cheat, deny, obfuscate, distort, and break any agreement they don't like. When one of them is caught doing something disgusting, they circle the wagons and get dirty. RINO's are gentlemen and honorable idiots. When one of them does something stupid, they throw him under the bus.

There is one rule in politics that the RINO's don't follow: never adopt the lingo of the enemy. Like "progressives". Why would a conservative politician dignify those loons by calling them "progressives" is beyond my ability to understand.

At our level, we are intimidated into cheerfully swallowing the terms of the vocal and aggressive special groups. All of a sudden, it's African-Americans, not blacks. It's "gay", not homosexual. It's "undocumented", not illegal. It's "youths", not black thugs. And on and on...

In a street fight, ******s never win.
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So that's why y'all need guns.
 
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Phys251 said:
Oh please. I can smell the fragile masculinity from y'all a thousand miles away.
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Usually it's those who are most insecure in their own masculinity that bring up the subject of that of others.

Unless, of course, the person in question is some reporter who thinks firing a rifle is enough to give him PTSD. Then he can bs mocked.
 
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haymarket said:
Oh but I do. And enough is enough.

Can you explain me the positive assets of making gay jokes or accusing people of homosexual activities simply to demean them? How is that not hateful?
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What if it is? Quite a few people consider homosexual acts immoral and do not have a high opinion of people who engage in them. They're free to say whatever they damned well please, just like homosexuals are.
 
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Tigerace117 said:
Usually it's those who are most insecure in their own masculinity that bring up the subject of that of others.
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And you can prove this how.

Unless, of course, the person in question is some reporter who thinks firing a rifle is enough to give him PTSD. Then he can bs mocked.
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Speaking of fragile masculinity. And not in the way you think or want.
 
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Phys251 said:
And you can prove this how.



Speaking of fragile masculinity. And not in the way you think or want.
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Through the actions of those individuals.

And the reporter can talk about his "PTSD" all he wants after he actually gets shot at while using a very similar weapon in some God forsaken desert.
 
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Tigerace117 said:
Through the actions of those individuals.
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Such as? Be specific. And since I am asking for a proof, be ready to defend it.

And the reporter can talk about his "PTSD" all he wants after he actually gets shot at while using a very similar weapon in some God forsaken desert.
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Psychiatrists diagnose people with PTSD, not reporters. Try again.
 
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haymarket said:
One thing that is obvious to me coming out of the terrible events of a week ago in Orlando is that all the gay bashing and homophobic language in our society contributes to an environment which makes acts like this possible since the perpetrator can rationalize it as somehow justified on a marginalized and outsider group who is openly mocked, scorned and ridiculed by even decent people.

I would hope we lear a valuable lesson from the 49 people killed and the lesson is one thing we all can do is STOP OUR OWN HATE SPEECH.

No more gay jokes.

No more derogatory 'homo' references.

No more attacks on somebody saying they perform homosexual acts. to demean or insult them.

No more. Enough is enough.

I remember being in grade school and there was this boy who was very awkward and had rather large buck teeth and was puny and small and lots of other kids used to tease him rather badly. And I also participated from time to time. And then one day when he stood up to recite something, a kid pulled his chair back and when he sat down he banged his chin on the desk and messed up some teeth pretty badly.

Now this was a Catholic school and there was hell to pay for that as the boy who did it was never seen again after that day being expelled. And the rest of us were lectured with great severity about what happened and how we made it all possible. And that boy was never picked on again as far as I know since we all say that enough is enough.

Lets learn from Orlando and each pledge to abstain from homophobic hate speech even if we think its harmless or just teasing or playing around or any other phony justification we can think up to defend its use.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and the solution to the problem starts with each of us.
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Sorry but can't stand with you on this. As much as I don't like any kind of hateful speech, people have a RIGHT to say what they want. Besides, what one person may label as hate speech another may consider such speech normal every day talk that isn't meant to harm. (such as talking about finances going down a black hole because no one knows where all the money is actually going and some black guy taking offense at it and essentially called it hate speech...and yes, that did happen, want the video?)
 
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Kal'Stang said:
Sorry but can't stand with you on this. As much as I don't like any kind of hateful speech, people have a RIGHT to say what they want. Besides, what one person may label as hate speech another may consider such speech normal every day talk that isn't meant to harm. (such as talking about finances going down a black hole because no one knows where all the money is actually going and some black guy taking offense at it and essentially called it hate speech...and yes, that did happen, want the video?)
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Give me the video. I'm interested.
 
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Phys251 said:
Me 3.

The backlash to the OP was entirely predictable. It is fascinating to see what tiny price some people refuse to pay in exchange for perhaps making the world a little better place.
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Free Speech is not a tiny price. :shrug:
 
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Phys251 said:
Me 3.

The backlash to the OP was entirely predictable. It is fascinating to see what tiny price some people refuse to pay in exchange for perhaps making the world a little better place.
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I'm sorry, but freedom of speech isn't a "tiny price to pay".
 
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