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  1. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    I hate when people use huge/capital letters to get their point across, so I'll use bolded, italicized, underlined text instead: Author's Intent > Text's Content
  2. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    For one, I know my personal tastes don't dictate anything, hence why, say, Lord of the Rings wouldn't be not available. I don't even think my political tastes dictate anything. I'm just speaking hypothetically. But anyway, did anyone miss out on me saying: As in, if the author's intent was...
  3. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    I read fiction to be entertained. Characters I can't relate to are boring. Ergo, I don't read a lot of old fiction due to lack of characters I can relate to. And what would they be missing out on that is sooo great yet contains racial slurs that can only be contextualized as sympathetically...
  4. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    I know, I was just talking generally, not in specific to that. Yeah, I often kinda skim legal jargon text too a lot. That has unsurprisingly led to bad stuff. x3 If enough people want it to be. And who said anything about banning? It'd just not be able to be held in government-owned...
  5. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    "[It won't be subject to this if its] used in a context that [is] to talk about the words as a political issue." would put To Kill A Mockingbird as exempt from the law. And I also don't understand the concept of "classics" anyway. I'll quote Mark Twain by saying: "Classic." A book which people...
  6. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    "Ban"? It wouldn't be banning, it would just mean you couldn't get them from a state-funded library, have them read aloud on national television, or do radio drama adaptations of those without those words being replaced. You could still, y'know, buy them, or crawl the deepweb and download them...
  7. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    Well, they can just be specific, like: "Works with the words 'nigger', 'fag', 'trannie'/'tranny, 'poof', 'chink', (extended long list), used in a context that isn't to define the words or talk about the words as a political issue, will not be permitted to be held in state-funded facilities, and...
  8. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    Why? I don't get what rights are being taken away by specifically censoring slurs.
  9. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    But if someone were to come up to me and say: "Revealed religions are untrue because there is many mutual exclusive holy scriptures, therefore all holy scriptures are untrue, and thus all revealed religions are untrue." I wouldn't be like, "Yes totally!" I would be like: "I think you...
  10. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    I accept your re-presentation of the arguments as logical, but I didn't have any actual dispute with the spirit of the premises, merely how they were laid out and demonstrated, which was what Shinji-lover was criticizing in the disputes of the premises offered.
  11. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    And if the lighter skinned person is wearing more clothing or sunscreen than the darker skinned person, wouldn't this proposed universal be violated? The *causation* is skin protection, but in the particular people there is not a universal *correlation*.
  12. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    Well, I'll bite. Let me see if I understand what you are saying, that is: Ax. 1: Observations of the existence of race is not unethical, and in fact, the concept of race is real. Ax. 2: Estimating differing potential based on race when related to environments that predispose race is not...
  13. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    I never claimed that majority opinion was good and right, and indeed, I remain steadfast in maintaining that there is an absolute value of what is good and public opinion does not wholly reflect it. By you believing me upholding government-as-majority as something that is good without me stating...
  14. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    Well if you are in the South: "Billy Bob, don't call other students 'fag'!" "Awww, but why?" "'cuz that implies that gays exist, and gays existin' runs counter to book learnin'. Now go back to studin' Creationism 101 and disprove them depostic Darwinists to prove the existence of Lord...
  15. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    Which exists because the representatives of the majority of the U.S. American population created it. Seriously, there is no big scary Government monster that's going to eat you, its a group of people elected by an even bigger group of people that obviously approves of the actions of the...
  16. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    Which is why censorship of mass media is carried out by the producers of aforesaid media to ensure the largest audience possible to have the most investors possible. Hence, there is no censorship by government of words we speak that is going on.
  17. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    Because one can't exercise Freedom if other people's Freedoms are muting other people's Freedoms in a way that creates a social hierarchy of bullies, whoever being the biggest bully being the one who gets the most stuff, and the biggest group of bullies being the ones that get the most Freedom...
  18. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    Unless they are self-hating, then yes, because a LGBTQUIA person using such a word towards another presumably LGBTQUIA person would not have any value as an insult due to applying to both, and thus would only have value as a reclaimed word to lessen its power when used as an insult.
  19. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    If that was a response to me, I already pointed that out. It does not change a person's instinctual value as a person in ethics, but it is a property of appearance that has language behind it, and is thus existent as a concept of description. Hence, skin color still needs language to describe...
  20. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    Indeed, the lovely process of Othering. More examples below: Man Human Woman Trans man Trans woman American* African-American Asian-American Hispanic-American (* Substitute with any Western country for the same result. Also, its interesting to note how White/Coloured schema has less othering...
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