Oh good, that gives me immunity for one of my favourite jokes.
Q. What do you call a nigger in a suit?
A. The defendant.
"African American" is
This whole PC stuff, is of course complete bullshit. I doubt if many
actually know my heritage, despite my numerous posts here, so I'll
clarify a bit:
My fathers side is all white. My mother is physically as black as the
ace of spades. Her mother was white, but her dad was a black from
Nigeria. However, my mothers mothers husband, was white. This makes me
the son of a black bastard.
Now, I have a rather err.. healthy looking, strong Californian tan
(seems to trash the genetic idea that traits are digitally inherited),
and what with my mothers attributes, this lead essentially, throughout
school to being referred to as sambo, nigger, wog, paki etc, you name
it, I was called it. The deal is that it meant absolutely nothing to me,
by the time that your 8 years old, the "insults" go through one ear and
out the other. Certainly any adult that has a problem with name calling
is one sad motherfucker indeed. The only real issue I had, was when 30
school kids shouted out, lets all go and give that nigger a right good
kicking. As you can imagine, the use of a derogatory reference, was the
last thing that I was concerned about.
The fundamental point of freedom (e.g. of speech), is to be free to do
things that others find objectionable. If no one found something
objectionable, we wouldn't need the concept in the first place to
protect it. i.e. Freedom would be completely meaningless. The idea that
words are censored, is probably the most abhorrent violation of free
speech that there can be. Its incredible that merely saying things like
"nigger" "****" evokes such outrage and indeed, e.g. bleeped out on
television. People have a "right" to be racist in their beliefs and
sayings. If we don't protect peoples rights to say what others find
objectionable, there can be no protection for those beliefs that we
ourselves find reasonable, but others find objectionable due to their
brainwashed prudish childhoods. Now..where did I put my whips...
Kevin Aylward
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