New York has banned the N word. State your opinion on this!?

Question

I'm not black but I just wanted to know why. Seems stupid to ban a word.

Answer 1

Will they arrest the blacks for saying it?

Answer 2

Banning the N word.

What I think is funny about it is that the state of New York and New York City have NOTHING more important happening right now. The priority is limiting free speach and banning a particular word because someone might be offended. They are passing a law they cannot enforce.

Again, since I don't live in NY or NYC, I don't know, but is there nothing happening in all of NY that needs attention? Are all the schools fully funded and operating at maximum efficency, are all the streets/highways perfect, have all the "brownfields" been attended to? This is really your priority?

If this ban is your priority, I think perhaps you might have your priorities out of whack!

Answer 3

Anything to do with the N word is a joke so long as the Blacks use it to address each other.

There is a ban against talking with handheld cell phones and I see easily 10 -15 people every morning doing it on my way to work.

This is a double standard and banning the N word is NOT ENFORCABLE!!

Answer 4

Language is constantly evolving just like this N word. Now it also means something else which is actually turned into a positive thing i.e. "friend" or "fellow countryman". Just like beauty where it's all in the eyes of the beholder, so does the meaning of this word. Not being an african american would probably not make my opinion representative thus it all depends on those affected if they appreciate or not the ban on the N word.

Answer 5

That I can understand but mate, thats nothing! Tony Blair has banned English people from thinking or saying anything that isn't 'politically correct'. Now we're not allowed to have an opinion. Sorry, that isn't quite accurate. English people who work for a living aren't. However, if you are a lazy teenage layabout who goes round terrorising your local neighbourhood making everyone's lives a misery then everyones sympathy be with you and how dare the rest of us call them YOBS! If you do you run the risk of some politically correct t**t telling you that you can't say that.

And forgive me if I'm not quite up to date on whether it is or isn't acceptable to say mixed race or mixed heritage, pikeys, travellers or thieving gypsy bastards. I get so confused with all these rules!

After the NYC twin towers got blown to bits then a few years later they tried to bomb London you can understand that police wanted to stop and search more people of a certain religion but god forbid we are allowed to actually be vigilant and look after our country. No let them bomb us!

As for singing that ancient popular nursery rhyme Baa Baa Black Sheep. Well sorry got to go now cos I think I've just been struck down!

You get my point. Is it that bad in America?

Answer 6

The N be conscious grew to become into around in the previous you have been born and it will proceed to be for an exceedingly long term. Banning the N be conscious may well be tantamount to banning the be conscious hi. The N be conscious is a factor of the black community's way of addressing one yet another. that's gloomy besides the fact that that we, as a human beings, had to undertake a be conscious for ourselves that has racial connotations linked to it.

Answer 7

I hope that somebody takes it all the way to the Supreme Court. Banning a "word" because a select group of individuals gets their feelings hurt when it is said is absolutely what the Constitution forbids.

Answer 8

No they didn't. Even though this has been repeated in previous answers it is illegal to limit freedom of speech that isn't deemed "riot words' or words that if spoken in public constitute a "clear and present danger". Since the Supreme court (the only court in the U.S. that can interpret/amend the constitution) hasn't rendered a decision this is not true. And I live in NY as well so ya it's not true.

Answer 9

Banning words is fruitless and against free speech.

I think the word is terrible - along with other racial perjoratives. However, you can't change a persons thoughts - and it is the thought that accompanys the words that do the damage. The only way you can do away with such terms is through education.

Answer 10

A law is effective because of voluntary compliance. New York may be in violation with the First Ammendment by enacting such a law, if such a law does exists. But, like I said, it is unenforceable.

Answer 11

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6406625.stm

It's symbolic, with no legal weight or fine. They'll make no attempt to enforce it. Slow day in the office, I guess. Of course, with no one charged, no one can contest it. It now stands as precedent: a US city has banned the spoken word...does NOT bode well for what remains of our freedoms...