Lewis Black and George Carlin nail it

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Right-o.  Let's not have kids read novels in which people in the 1800s use language that was used in the 1800s.

Fuxxake.  I have a strong suspicion that the adults who ban books like Huckleberry Finn know literally nothing more than that it has the word 'nigger' in it.  If they were to ban books actually promoting and supporting racism, I could see their point (although I still wouldn't agree with their methods).  But that doesn't apply here.  Huckleberry Finn isn't a racist book, and Twain wasn't a racist.

Maybe these fuckwits should read Twain's 'The United States of Lynchdom' to get a more accurate picture about his views on race.

Boru

[Edwardo Piet]

When it comes to so-called 'racist' language, I can truly empathize with Carlin.

Not long ago, on another message board, some yammerhead opined that using the n-word under any circumstances and in any context makes you a racist, so I posted, 'The word "nigger" appears more than 200 times in Twain's Huckleberry Finn.  Does saying this make me a racist?'  She said 'Yes', blocked and reported me.

Boru

Wow! What a stupid honky she presumably was!

I once had a friendship for several years with a vegan woman from London. She also used to be a poster on AF and known as Norabrimstone over here. We chatted on Facebooks off and on for years.

One day, I let her know that the rest of my family were vegan but I'm not. She said "WHAT?! So you care more about your own stomach than baby animals!", blocked me and never talked to me again.

I had never told her that I was vegan.... so it's like she just assumes everyone is vegan by default and befriends people based on that assumption, and then when she discovers that, shockingly they're not vegan as most people aren't, she never talks to me again.

She also told me she was appearing on a BBC Program at a specific time and told me to watch.... but she refused to tell me who on the program she was or what she even looked like. What was the point? I wasn't even interested in that program and I didn't even know who I was looking for. Lol.

Point being, some people are fucking weird. And that's ME saying that and I'm pretty fucking odd myself!

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Maybe these fuckwits should read Twain's 'The United States of Lynchdom' to get a more accurate picture about his views on race.

And it's like they're too stupid to realize that people can be progressive for their time, even if they're not progressive by today's standards, and they're still progressive for their time.

Abraham Lincoln was a fantastic president in general and he was famous for liberating the slaves, but by today's standards even he was a racist because despite the fact that he considered it wrong for white people to own black people, he still thought that black people were lesser than white people and "Not our equals".

Would knowing this meaning they wish they'd never even been educated about Abraham Lincoln as well? Lol.

[Minimalist]

I remember Nora.  I didn't think she was that whacky.

Mmmm.  Steak tonight.

[Edwardo Piet]

I remember Nora.  I didn't think she was that whacky.

Mmmm.  Steak tonight.

Yeah. I didn't think she was either. I may have said a LITTLE more. But nothing shocking. I basically talked about how I actually agree that veganism is morally superior but I don't think it's a big enough of a deal for me to change my diet. And I'd rather focus on something else I consider more morally important like I'd rather give money to charities involving starving children. I also said that while good in theory I think that in practice veganism doesn't do much because eating an animal that has been killed isn't the same as killing it yourself. And I said that trying to stop people killing animals by not eating them is about as unrealistic as expecting everyone to stop polluting the planet by yourself choosing to not buy a car.

But still, nothing that should give her reason to react with "WTF you care about your own stomach more than baby animals!" and block me forever after we'd talked as friends for years.

[John V]

I find it interesting that he presumably wouldn't have a problem with this thread, because the swear words aren't in the thread title.

[Brian37]

I find it interesting that he presumably wouldn't have a problem with this thread, because the swear words aren't in the thread title.

Meh, not as important as a JEW agreeing with us on evolution.