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Click to view Chris the Wheeler's profile Pro 72 posts since
Aug 15, 2007

Dec 17, 2007 7:36 PM

So do people have a RIGHT to not be offended?


Seriously. If I say that "all illegal aliens should be rounded up and shipped back to wherever they came from and that their anchor babies should be sent along with them", I'd be offending someone somewhere. Would this type of conversation be allowed? Do you, or in this case any illegal that's reading this, have a RIGHT to not be offended?


Click to view skmk's profile Amateur 11 posts since
Dec 14, 2007
1. Dec 17, 2007 7:51 PM in response to: Chris the Wheeler
Have at it.
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Click to view Holden Wood's profile Amateur 17 posts since
Dec 14, 2007
2. Dec 17, 2007 7:52 PM in response to: Chris the Wheeler
In our culture, and I know you're going to hate me playing the cultural relativism card, that is ok. It is open for debate. Anglo-Saxon culture has a long taboo against words associated with bodily fluids and bodily emissions. "God's wounds" was a pretty devastating statement only a few hundred years ago.

But it really is ok to talk about illegal aliens. That is a topic of debate. It isn't PC to think that different ethnicities should be treated with respect. That's just good sense.
Click to view makeda's profile Pro 59 posts since
Aug 15, 2007
3. Dec 17, 2007 7:53 PM in response to: Chris the Wheeler
I don't think the word "right" makes sense in this particular context.
Click to view makeda's profile Pro 59 posts since
Aug 15, 2007
5. Dec 18, 2007 10:24 AM in response to: Chris the Wheeler
You're going to have to consult your newest issue of Pot Stirring Monthly. I saw it on the newsstand. The cover promises 113 ways to get a thread flaming...or whatever they do here.