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There should be no word that anyone on the planet is not allowed to say.
Absolutely! It is our right as an American.
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You’re absolutely allowed to say any word you want. No one is banned from using any word. It’s not like someone can stop you from saying anything.
What you mean is that all words should be allowed without consequences. That’s never gonna happen, nor should it.
I agree with you up to a point. Words can be hurtful, but actions can be much more hurtful, even deadly. No matter what is said, if words fail, violence can ensue. There is nothing that can be said that should cause a death. Freedom of speech is our greatest right, if we lose that, we lose our freedom.
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Absolutely! It is our right as an American.
I agree with you up to a point. Words can be hurtful, but actions can be much more hurtful, even deadly. No matter what is said, if words fail, violence can ensue. There is nothing that can be said that should cause a death. Freedom of speech is our greatest right, if we lose that, we lose our freedom.
Isn't the next step after telling a person what they may not say, of necessity, telling a person what they may not think?
I hear more young black people use the word 'bro', which when I was growing up, was considered a white term. Isn't that a form appropriating. It's just so silly really.
"Bro" was an urban black word from the late '60s and early '70s. Back then there were a lot of local businesses that would say "Johnson Bros" or something like that... meaning "brothers". It supposedly came from that because black people were already calling themselves "brother".
In the early 1970s you might see a greeting like "Say bro, gimme some skin". "Gimme some skin" meant either a handshake (black style) or it meant to slap hands (sort of like a waste level high five). White people didn't start "bro-ing until the 1980s.
The early '70s guys who did that had a certain look about them, certain mannerisms and even a kind of walk which was called "stylin' ".
I agree with you up to a point. Words can be hurtful, but actions can be much more hurtful, even deadly. No matter what is said, if words fail, violence can ensue. There is nothing that can be said that should cause a death. Freedom of speech is our greatest right, if we lose that, we lose our freedom.
Yeah, no. I’m all for free speech, but there’s just some things that I’m just not letting slide. How that ends is anyone’s guess, but that’s just how it’s gotta be. I demand the same respect that I give.
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Yeah, no. I’m all for free speech, but there’s just some things that I’m just not letting slide. How that ends is anyone’s guess, but that’s just how it’s gotta be. I demand the same respect that I give.
"Some folks are just begging for their nipples to be bitten off."
Black people need to quit feeling inferior and quit playing the race card every time something doesn't go their way! If there's inequality, many times it's the black person's own fault.
Ouch. The poll says it all. I think white people have had enough. Especially white men, but the tough women have our backs as they always do! The leftist women? Um, not so much as they live in total depression and hate everyone including all humans.
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Yep. And my teeth were deemed to be quite healthy at my last cleaning visit.
How highly respectful of you.
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