(February 11, 2021 at 6:55 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Do you not even care, that that word I was referring to the white asshole insurrectionists who were shouting that word at black Capital Hill police during the entire event? Not using that very ugly word, which it is, and nobody is arguing it isn't, does not change that it was used. You cannot go into the Holocaust Museum in DC and not see Nazi symbols. Don't try to argue with me, that because those symbols exist in the Holocaust Museum that Jews hate themselves. Goodman was shouted at along with other black cops that word. The poem was not promoting use of it, anymore than a Nazi symbol in the Holocaust Museum was saying "hate Jews".
I'll try one more time.
No, you weren't promoting it, and I couldn't imagine you doing such a thing. The action I took had nothing to do with the historical, repugnant context of the word. It's simply a word we don't allow to be used here, and you used it repeatedly after being told and then warned not to do so.
It's nothing to do with your message, which I agree with (the meaning of it, if not the way you expressed it), it has to do with the use of the word itself. For example, it you were to - in all innocence and no malice intended - quote a passage from 'Huckleberry Finn' or 'The Voyages Of Doctor Doolittle' or 'To Kill A Mockingbird' containing that word, the result would have been the same.
I hope this clears it up.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
