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Old 12-15-2003, 09:41 PM   #39 (permalink)
Holo
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This is what bothers me the most; It's not so much this particular incident, it's what this will inspire the censorship of in the future. Imagine the next version of Office making the word nigger a misspelled word in spellcheck due to it's racist connotations. I know that's a stretch but I think this is an unecessary stretch so it's not too farfetched. I shudder to think our race (the human one) is so stupid that we have to have decisions like this made for us. I mean yeah we all meet stupid people but this is scary. The symbol has value in it's original context, and I don't like it being censored from widespread use in office software due to something that briefly happened 50 years ago, no matter how horrible it was. We don't clamor for the removal of the word gay from our language since it's meaning was drastically changed from it's original definition. People need to look at things with their minds and not a knee-jerk uneducated reaction.


Education is the cure for all ignorance, and this was the spirit of this thread. Ignorance isn't bad when it's honest. We all can't know everything and it's easy to accept a digested version of things that aren't terribly important to us or just know mothing about a subject. It's poisonous when we struggle to remain ignorant and intolerant. Intolerance works both ways. This symbol is going to continue to be maligned unless someone keeps it alive.
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