[Osborn F Enready]

Scribbler said: I don't automatically support outlawing something, especially when speech is concerned. If you outlaw any part of the right to free speech you never get it back, period. My point throughout all this has been there wouldn't be any mention of laws is people were a little more responsible and civilized. Like the cliche "yelling fire in a theater". Do you think they just dreamed that up or were a bunch of idiotic assholes CREATING the need for a law (BTW, is there an actual law on this?) by actually yelling FIRE in theaters? There wouldn't even BE a discussion on this if some redneck fools didn't want to defend their god-given right to insult people. This is precisely why there are all these heavy-handed and improperly used "hate speech" laws on the books already. And any white people analysing the subtle nuances between nigger and niggA is a bad joke. The first is a grievous insult and the other isn't used by white people anyway.

I say:
Scrib, I wasn't criticizing, I was asking those questions to get your honest views on THOSE questions. I fundamentally agree, but I don't where you think the line should be drawn, as far as the individual establishment, the village, the city, the state, the fed?

Scribbler said: And if you say it to a prostitute she will probably laugh. I doubt the same can be said with racial slurs.

I say:
Exactly, and it is because so many carry torches that should long ago have been extinguished, with EXTREME PREJUDICE, meaning, stop bringing up the word as being as insult, and the word will as Milton said, become like the "slang derogatory comment" Yankee.

Miltons post sums up a lot of my feeling on the words Yankee, Cracker, Whitey, Honkey, or my favorite one, which I can't keep a straight face when being called...."White Devil".... ROFLMAO.

Perhaps we should have insults about skin thickness, instead of skin color? LOL

Scribbler said: Easy answer. Have all of the abovementioned groups use the word and see who gets beaten up. Positively elegant in its simplicity, yes?

I say:
And I will be the "token" white dude, who says nigga in the local black bar, lets start testing... Anyone who is any of the above races ready to step up in the local Toledo area willing to help me conduct a cross sectional race experiment on the use of the word "nigga" by other races?

Scribbler said: The first is a grievous insult and the other isn't used by white people anyway.

I say:
LOL, I know several who use it. I use it occassionally, mockingly of those who use it.... LOL