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Is "redneck" a racial slur?
After I found out about this board's strict policy on racial slurs and such, I was surprised to see that nobody really seemed to care about the use of the word "redneck", a word which many people consider a racial slur. I personally don't feel that the use of any derogatory group terms is a good thing, although I also think that this particular one is not exactly "racial"...
Anyway, does anyone here think that this word should be banned from polite discourse?
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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