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It seems Im a racist - 6/1/2010 7:07:01 PM   
SirPumpy


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Ive removed my white hood to write this tongue in cheek rant but as I was replying to a PM just now I got a pop up compliments of CM.com...........

It told me that the word Nigger was on the forums banned words list and that I was very naughty and would be dealt with.

Actually it was far more boring than that but the issue is that I hadn't used the word Nigger, Id written the word Snigger.

My issues are as follows....

We have no freedom of speech as we have no constitutional rights to free speech since political correctness.

I was not typing the derogatory term for African American, I was typing a word describing a form of laughter.

The word the forum objects to is one used by African Americans many millions of times a day.

And why on earth is there word censorship on an adult forum presumably filled with adults who should not need to be censored and treated like children?

After all Ive seen in print the word Cunt which i find far more offensive and is a derogatory term for one of my favourite foods.

Food for thoughT.

SP

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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/1/2010 7:08:35 PM   
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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/1/2010 7:08:36 PM   
SirPumpy


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it isn't a banned word in the forums, only in the PM system!

I apologise.

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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/1/2010 7:12:15 PM   
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Food for though.


Did you mean "Food for thoughT?  Could it be you made a typo?  However, I agree with your sentiment, this is an adult website.


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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/1/2010 7:15:21 PM   
SirPumpy


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Yes I did mean food for thought.

Weird that the PM system is censored and the forum is not, probably a missed setting.

What the popup actually says is "The page at collarme.com says 'nigger' rejected by content filter"

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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/1/2010 7:16:30 PM   
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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/1/2010 7:17:40 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: SirPumpy

Damn!

Ive removed my white hood to write this tongue in cheek rant but as I was replying to a PM just now I got a pop up compliments of CM.com...........

It told me that the word Nigger was on the forums banned words list and that I was very naughty and would be dealt with.

Actually it was far more boring than that but the issue is that I hadn't used the word Nigger, Id written the word Snigger.

My issues are as follows....

We have no freedom of speech as we have no constitutional rights to free speech since political correctness.

I was not typing the derogatory term for African American, I was typing a word describing a form of laughter.

The word the forum objects to is one used by African Americans many millions of times a day.

And why on earth is there word censorship on an adult forum presumably filled with adults who should not need to be censored and treated like children?

After all Ive seen in print the word Cunt which i find far more offensive and is a derogatory term for one of my favourite foods.

Food for thoughT.

SP


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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/1/2010 7:19:19 PM   
SirPumpy


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May be so.............

But its a Mac and as white as snow, so maybe its feeling guilty.

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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/1/2010 7:23:42 PM   
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ORIGINAL: SirPumpy
It told me that the word Nigger was on the forums banned words list and that I was very naughty and would be dealt with.

There is a forums banned words list? Where?

Incidentally, that word in ancient Dutch folklore is used to describe or name a supernatural large black dog. Much like the British Paddy / Padfoot and similar creatures. In the USA there once was a movie made named Black Dog, which referred to a mythical creature seen by USA truckers who had wronged someone.

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ORIGINAL: SirPumpy
Actually it was far more boring than that but the issue is that I hadn't used the word Nigger, Id written the word Snigger.

You have been misunderstood by a Mod!
Welcome to the club. I have been misunderstood by Mod(s) several times. The worst one was the first time.

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ORIGINAL: SirPumpy
And why on earth is there word censorship on an adult forum presumably filled with adults who should not need to be censored and treated like children?

Psst! This is an American site. Americans are weird.

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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/1/2010 7:53:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		The reason why it got flagged in the PM and not here is because the forums can be (and are) moderated by humans, while PMs cannot, thus there is a list of no-no words that get flagged automatically by the PM program. Here on the forums the moderators would be able to see if the word in question is offensive or not and thus decide to either allow it or to squash the post.

That's my guess at any rate.


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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/1/2010 9:13:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		I believe that is the only word that is filtered. We had a thread about this a few months ago where several of us were trying out different words to see what was filtered and what was not, and if memory serves that was the only word we found that was filtered out.

I always get a kick out of people who go ballistic when someone uses the word "niggardly." I figure if you're too stupid to know anything about the language, you've got no business complaining about what other people say.


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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/1/2010 9:20:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		The computer is right.  The computer knows all and sees all.  You ARE a racist!

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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/1/2010 10:41:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sorry Mate, but you pointed out the one word that I think should be banned anywhere. If African Americans want to use it in an ironic fashion, why not? They've sort of earned it after being treated like shit for several centuries.
I have some good solid black friends who know that I will be the first up when I hear that word when we are out, and it happens, it happens too damned often.
Not acceptable.
It's a small price to pay to avoid sounding like you are using that term, especially as the word snigger did have it's day during the english comic boom in the sixties.
Chuckle sounds better.

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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/1/2010 11:53:59 PM   
SirPumpy


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Status: offline 		Snigger sounds dirtier though where a chuckle is way too wholesome for me.

Its all about context, Mel Brooks for instance in the film Blazing Saddles used the N word a fair bit and copped hell because of it and yet in context the use of the word was fine, funny and well in context.

Even Chris Rock said publicly that the cringe associated with the use of the N word was more Liberal white cringe than with your work a day Afro American who honestly didnt give a shit.

Eddy Murphy agrees and many other leading African American public figures also believe that the word and use of the word isn't as bad as its made out to be.

And in the Southern states I heard it used many times a day when I was last there and often in an affectionate and irreverent way not associated with cross burnings or church fires.

Maybe I don't quite get it as we only have our indigenous people and there are very few Aboriginals in the Southern Australian states (We shot them all and drove them off cliffs early in the last century.)

Arpig, you make perfect sense mate and im guessing you are probably 100% correct.

Reynardfox I can understand how people get offended by name calling but the bigger man (Or woman) will ignore it and chalk it up to ignorance.

The smaller man (Or woman) will bite hard which is exactly what the other person wants and there will be no converts and no winners, infact the opposite happens as this will bring joy to the bigot and prove their point reinforcing their beliefs.




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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/2/2010 12:43:06 AM   
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I was called a "bigot" and a "racist" because I started a thread about "Community Organizers" over in "Politics and Religion!"
I used the term "poor neighborhood" which I think is leftist "code" for "black." Only I grew up in a "poor neighborhood!" And I'm white!
"Community Organizers!!!"
Somehow if you talk about them it's , "racist" and "bigotted" to the leftists and communists.
I wonder what the next "key phrase" will be that they jump on?
Someone said that after they go against the second amendment they'll go after the first.
"Political correctness" is nothing more than communistic thinking!

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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/2/2010 12:53:11 AM   
SirPumpy


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Status: offline 		I fight Political correctness every day.

I use non PC terms sensibly and with humour as I have for many years.

Fortunately Australia doesn't have much in the way of legal groups to enforce PC behaviour, like NAACP etc

So keep up the good work and enjoy your life the way you want to

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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/2/2010 2:22:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yeah, it's not banned here....but they are uber touchy about it, I've had a post removed for using it when discussing censorship. 

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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/2/2010 2:35:50 AM   
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ORIGINAL: SirPumpy

I fight Political correctness every day.

I use non PC terms sensibly and with humour as I have for many years.

Fortunately Australia doesn't have much in the way of legal groups to enforce PC behaviour, like NAACP etc

So keep up the good work and enjoy your life the way you want to


Thank Christ for being Australian and living in Australia...one of the most laid back and least PC nations and peoples on earth!

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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/2/2010 3:02:32 AM   
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The reason why it got flagged in the PM and not here is because the forums can be (and are) moderated by humans, while PMs cannot, thus there is a list of no-no words that get flagged automatically by the PM program. Here on the forums the moderators would be able to see if the word in question is offensive or not and thus decide to either allow it or to squash the post.

That's my guess at any rate.

Having seen this subject before, I have to say that Arpig wins the prize.


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RE: It seems Im a racist - 6/2/2010 3:17:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		Wow. I'm speechless. I'll just have my little snigger and go about the rest of my day.

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