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MSD · 08-09-2004, 01:18 AM

Banning words just leaves people feeling that they're being talked down to by someone who thinks they're "enlightened" and basically comes across as trying to act superior. Eliminating labels is not going to eleminate that rampant homophobia or sexual taboos that have infected our society. I'll go as far as to say that 99.9% of people in our country, regardless of what they say they think about the issue of homosexuality, gay marriage, whatever, are either openly homophobic or displaying a severe case of psychological reaction-formation and suppressing homophobic tenencies because they're told that simply addressing the issue by using terms like "gay" isn't PC.

Here's the part that is going to piss people off. We do have a lot of good people here, but there's no way that everyone on TFP is from this "enlightened" .1% of society that is free of prejudice and genuinely believes that eceryone is equal. I'm not perfect, but I address issues instead of avoiding them. I grew up in a big racial bubble of a town, and the attitudes of people rubbed off on me. Instead of suppressing what I'd leanred, I actively worked to unlearn the racial, sexual, and cultural biases that I grew up with.

Brushing an issue under the rug lets it grow without being addressed. Words are just a way of verbalizing concepts, markers for ideas inside our heads. Pulling a marker flag off of a buried land mine won't make the mine go away, eliminating words that we attach to concepts against which people have prejudices won't make those concepts or the prejudices go away.

08-09-2004, 01:18 AM	#27 (permalink)
MSD The sky calls to us ... Super Moderator Location: CT	Banning words just leaves people feeling that they're being talked down to by someone who thinks they're "enlightened" and basically comes across as trying to act superior. Eliminating labels is not going to eleminate that rampant homophobia or sexual taboos that have infected our society. I'll go as far as to say that 99.9% of people in our country, regardless of what they say they think about the issue of homosexuality, gay marriage, whatever, are either openly homophobic or displaying a severe case of psychological reaction-formation and suppressing homophobic tenencies because they're told that simply addressing the issue by using terms like "gay" isn't PC. Here's the part that is going to piss people off. We do have a lot of good people here, but there's no way that everyone on TFP is from this "enlightened" .1% of society that is free of prejudice and genuinely believes that eceryone is equal. I'm not perfect, but I address issues instead of avoiding them. I grew up in a big racial bubble of a town, and the attitudes of people rubbed off on me. Instead of suppressing what I'd leanred, I actively worked to unlearn the racial, sexual, and cultural biases that I grew up with. Brushing an issue under the rug lets it grow without being addressed. Words are just a way of verbalizing concepts, markers for ideas inside our heads. Pulling a marker flag off of a buried land mine won't make the mine go away, eliminating words that we attach to concepts against which people have prejudices won't make those concepts or the prejudices go away.