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Originally Posted by pip08456
So no-one can be educated then? Without history how can anyone learn?
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Exactly. It would be like whitewashing what Hitler did or replacing the word Nigger each time black people were called it in Roots.
They were called it and it needs to be exposed and remembered.
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Originally Posted by Hom3r
The classic film dub is the dog in the Dam Busters.
In the oringinal it was called "N-Word" but TV dubbed it badly to Trigger.
With the remake in the pipe line its a dammed if yo do dammed if you don't scenario.
So the chose the other name used Nigsy.
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I appreciate that saying the N word is an attempt to be polite, but it always leaves me scratching my head.
Gay people were called Queers, but we don't say "the Q word", disabled people were called Spastics, but we don't say "the S word", women were referred to as "Bitches", but we don't say "the B word" etc
Racial insults shouldn't be put on a pedestal and treated as if they are somehow more offensive than what other groups have been exposed to.
Secondly, when someone writes or says the N word, our brain works out what is meant and our neurological pathways lead to what was meant anyway!
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Originally Posted by Horizon
As I had to sack a mod on my site a month ago over the use of a "outdated" word, this is a hot issue for me... 
As jj20x was trying to explain, society moves on and Ofcom is bound by the rules of today not yesterday.
I think with these old films (or shows) the way to go about them is not to ban them, but to put a clear warning up on the screen that the films/shows use language which is deemed unacceptable and in some cases, illegal, and so its up to the viewer whether they view them or not.
And before someone says it, I'm not a snowflake. Like most people, I believe, I can be as racist, sexist etc as the next person, but what one thinks and then writes down on a internet site, are two different things.
Think whatever you like, but be careful what you write.  Or even, be careful as to what smilies you use now, as some can become "outdated" too...  |
I accept that people cannot simply type whatever floats into their head onto the internet and that this could lead to action being taken against them.
Typing out racial insults to purposely upset a person or persons, incite racial hatred or committing a public order offence would be illegal, but I don't believe that a discussion like this would be found to be illegal. Even Ofcom found it necessary to state the words used when dealing with the complaints.
So, it depends on what context your moderator used the word as to whether you were being oversensitive or not.
I'm not sure which smilies you mean; how on Earth can a smilie be racist??