11-23-2011, 07:21 PM
dfiant Wrote:Each to their own as far as I am concern. If anyone wants to call themselves queer, fag, poof or whatever, it doesn't bother me the slightest how other people choose to identify themselves.
Yes, of course, I agree completely. What one wishes to call oneself in private is one's own business. But shouldn't then a controversial name, to some a slur, be censored? Why shouldn't it be when the "N" word is censored to protect some in the black community while others use it fairly freely? A black friend of mine, who I can't name because I don't yet have his permission to name him publicly, pointed out that he gets more respect as a black man than he does as a F----- because the "N" word is censored and the "Q" word is not. Do you see his point?
Privately, yes. Say it all you want, but I don't wish to talk to you at all. Publicly, you should be censored by yourself or any publication or website with fair standards.
Does this make sense? Where am I going off base?