my understanding is anything that people might get offended like.. racist, sexist comments..
or what is YOUR understanding of offensive language?
and the target is censoring it from everyone in general, just to be fair (i'm not for or against it atm, still chewing on it..)
i think it's to do with ethics.. but then by censoring language that could be offensive could potentially be more offensive to the person that was going to be offended? if that makes any sense?
i dunno.. this could be a discussion type thing? but then we're going to need evidence to back it up rather than just drawing out of thin air.
also, not completely unrelating but following on the politically correct thread, when they tried banning christmas coz it could offend other religions, the "other religions" got offended coz they didn't take offense from christmas.
then they tried to change "baa baa black sheep" to "baa baa happy sheep", i think people woul get even more offended that they even thought of the link!!
2007-11-28
01:26:21
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