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Wayne Doubletree Resident (138.26.199.131) on 4/5/2018 - 4:13 p.m. says: ( 394 views , 6 likes )

"And besides that why is the question?"

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Is "colored" derogatory to you? How about "Jewboy"? We can play that game all day. *

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If you are trying to make a point here . . . I can only think of 2 examples where such things would help with the point and not distract from it.

1. Blazing Saddles - The whole point is to lampoon the bigotry. I see the point of using it. It makes the point.

2. Nazi/Skinhead/Nation of Islam - If you are indeed a bigot then I get why you use the language. It does not distract from your point . . . it is your point.

All other things . . . which would encompass 99.99% of the discussion on this board it does nothing but detract from your point (should you have one).

Which is exactly the case with hump.

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"The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to — for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well — is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the individual as the basis of the empire. Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen."

And besides that why is the question? Wayne 4/5/2018 - 4:13 p.m.


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