Banned from the daily mail :(

anything I don't mind said:
I am 31 and rent a one bed room duplex worth about £160-180k :(
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Brutos said:
Considering I am a black person no its not..using that word will always get the same response.

I have seen people decked out cold just for using the N word and the context didn't matter.
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Says more about the individual than 'context not being important'.

Just because you are black doesn't mean your view holds more weight either.

Context is important.

'I think ****** is a terrible word'.

Should a get 'decked out' for that? Am I a racist?

Likewise this person who did the 'decking out'. If a fellow black person came up to him and greeted him with 'Yo *****' would he 'deck out' this person too?

Common sense please.
 
balky12 said:
sigh.
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I should be the one sighing...

You took the statement i made:

Avenged7Fold said:
I cant imagine a context where the use of the word on The Daily Mail website is inoffensive where an alternative word couldn't be used.
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Then you argue that there are many and proceed to give an example where an alternative word is used. Your reply was fundamentally wrong. I was not arguing about whether it is offensive or not, i was implying why you may have been banned for it, which is on topic. It was a statement about what i can imagine, proceeding to tell me what i am supposedly arguing about is stupid and unsurprising given what i have seen from your posts in this thread.

Context is precisely the reason why the comment section moderators ban the use of certain words; Because there is little need for them and it is easy to take posts in different contexts. Banning the use of the word wont hinder anyone's English enough to prevent a point coming across but it keeps comment sections more on topic and avoids provocation whether intended or not.

For someone debating context, you sure have avoided telling us exactly the context of your ban.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
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Considering I am not even the OP, or the one who has been banned, well played.

However, I am simply using '******' to avoid any potential repercussions that this forum may uphold.

My argument is, that context is important. Simply using '******' =/= racist.

I don't see how that is hard to understand either, or why 'most of my posts are stupid'.
 
balky12 said:
Says more about the individual than 'context not being important'.

Just because you are black doesn't mean your view holds more weight either.

Context is important.

'I think ****** is a terrible word'.

Should a get 'decked out' for that? Am I a racist?

Likewise this person who did the 'decking out'. If a fellow black person came up to him and greeted him with 'Yo *****' would he 'deck out' this person too?

Common sense please.
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No one in my personal circle would use that word period as we know the meaning of it. Black people who do use it have no concept of what i means or effect it was used for and are plain ignorant.

Ignorance is more common than common sense because ...common sense isn't common.
 
itchy said:
No individual word on the planet is racist, context and delivery are key to what defines racial abuse.
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May be true but the point is that it can offend regardless of whether it is actually racist. Whether the offended party is right or wrong in the situation it is simply not needed.

Just because you don't believe it to be offensive doest mean someone hasn't taken offence to it.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
May be true but the point is that it can offend regardless of whether it is actually racist. Whether the offended party is right or wrong in the situation it is simply not needed.

Just because you don't believe it to be offensive doest mean someone hasn't taken offence to it.
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The world cannot operate like that. If we cannot say something which MAY offend someone, then there is very little we CAN say.
 
Yes if you follow a simple statement like that and lead your life by it without making judgement on your situation but luckily i think before i speak and use my common sense to judge what would be acceptable in the situation.
 
Jesus!! what happened to the "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me" :rolleyes:

That's what I had drummed into me as a child.
 
Brutos said:
Considering I am a black person no its not..using that word will always get the same response.

I have seen people decked out cold just for using the N word and the context didn't matter.
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Just because you're black, doesn't mean you own the word, or its usage.

Calling it "the n word" also gives it power.
 
And here guys, I present you with the modified lyrics to a song courtesy of Team America:

Everyone is RACIST!
RACE-RACE-RACIST!
RACE-RACE-RACE-RACE-RACE-RACIST!
Everyone is RACIST!

And so this is the end of our story
And everyone is dead from RACISM
It took from me my best friend
My only true pal
My only bright star (he died of RACISM)

Well I'm gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There's a hero inside of all of us
I'll make them see everyone is RACIST

My father (RACIST!)
My sister (RACIST!)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (RACE-RACE-RACIST!)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades

Everyone is RACIST!
My grandma and my dog 'ol blue (RACE-RACE-RACIST)
The pope is RACIST and so are you (RACE-RACE-RACE-RACE-RACIST)
C'mon everybody we got quilting to be (RACE-RACE-RACE-RACE-RACIST)
We gotta break down these baricades, everyone is RACIST! x 20
 
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