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- From: gcmarx at gmail.com (Gordon Marx)
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:18:18 -0400
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Mad props on this response. I want to go even further, though -- why should it have to require a majority opinion? Why is someone's "right" to say whatever they want without consequences greater than someone else's right to feel safe and human? Gordon On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) <blu at nedharvey.com> wrote: > Political correctness is synonymous with respect for other people. > > Anytime someone says they're sick of being politically correct, it means they want to be disrespectful of other people, without any backlash. > > The white man in the room doesn't get to tell us what's racist and what's not racist. If the majority of black people would feel that's a racist term, then by definition, it is. > > Cotton pickin isn't racist, just like the confederate flag isn't racist. Meaning - they both are. Because the majority of African Americans feel they are. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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