Ann Coulter

[LAGUNA]

Ann Coulter is fucking awesome

[Zalius]

all this time septimus, youve been stealing our fucking words and turning them into insults directed at yourself? YOU ARE BOTH NONSENSICAL AND A FUCKING SHAME ON THE FACE OF HUMANITY but seriously i have a few gay friends and they call me faggot all the time in public and that shit gets to you cause like, they have mad gaydar you know? so youre like constantly paranoid cause gay people are calling you faggot and shit, man dude thats unsettling

[Marquisate]

I dont mean to offend anyone but getting upset over words is just plain stupid. Faggot,nigger,spick,cracker,gay, etc etc etc. Only words. People need to stop getting so upset over them. I have a black friend that doesnt give a damn if someone calls him a nigger.

Take it from someone who lives in a predominantly Black community - your friend is lying to you. "Nigger" is a powerful word with not only hundreds of years of historical weight behind it, but it also sums up all the anger and frustration that individual Black Americans have felt every time someone treated them differently because of their race. It may have a different level of power over different individuals, but you're immensely naive to think that it can ever be completely removed of its meaning in the vast majority of contexts.

[Zalius]

the only reason they're offensive is because people take them offensively. who knows, in 20 years emo may be one of those unspeakable words, or maybe even something as simple as nerd. in the 1800s~ the word nigger was not at all offensive, it was a definition and commonspeak. you think mark twain could get away with huck finn in 2007?

[Marquisate]

the only reason they're offensive is because people take them offensively. who knows, in 20 years emo may be one of those unspeakable words, or maybe even something as simple as nerd. in the 1800s~ the word nigger was not at all offensive, it was a definition and commonspeak. you think mark twain could get away with huck finn in 2007?

I think you're misinterpreting Huck Finn.

That book is one of the most vicious satires of antebellum-era society's devaluation of Blacks. The word was commonplace only because the era was immensely racist - racism was commonplace! His use of "Nigger" places a brand on Jim, devalues him as an individual and reduces him to a lower class of human being... the better to underscore a satirical narrative where Jim is really the only individual with moral worth that Huck meets in his travels.

The word is almost always hateful and insulting. It brands you as part of a subdivision of society, one placed on a lower rung than Whites. The word refers to a hateful perception of Blacks as stupid, shiftless, immoral, good-for-nothing criminals who aren't fully human. You can't simply "not be offended" by the word - it's only function is to offend. You can try to rise above someone's hate for you, as expressed by the word, but that's entirely different.

[dietvanillapepsi]

I do not know why anyone gives that woman credibility. She mistakes name calling for debate.

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Kinda makes me wish I had slavery in my family histo---owait, I'm an Irish immigrant descendant. Though to be fair I've never been subjected to anything worse then being called a potato-fucker.

[Norelco]

who knows, in 20 years emo may be one of those unspeakable words

LOL, you're a moron.

[Saga]

the only reason they're offensive is because people take them offensively. who knows, in 20 years emo may be one of those unspeakable words, or maybe even something as simple as nerd. in the 1800s~ the word nigger was not at all offensive, it was a definition and commonspeak. you think mark twain could get away with huck finn in 2007?

I think you're misinterpreting Huck Finn.

That book is one of the most vicious satires of antebellum-era society's devaluation of Blacks. The word was commonplace only because the era was immensely racist - racism was commonplace! His use of "Nigger" places a brand on Jim, devalues him as an individual and reduces him to a lower class of human being... the better to underscore a satirical narrative where Jim is really the only individual with moral worth that Huck meets in his travels.

The word is almost always hateful and insulting. It brands you as part of a subdivision of society, one placed on a lower rung than Whites. The word refers to a hateful perception of Blacks as stupid, shiftless, immoral, good-for-nothing criminals who aren't fully human. You can't simply "not be offended" by the word - it's only function is to offend. You can try to rise above someone's hate for you, as expressed by the word, but that's entirely different.

i never thought i'd find SparkNote's creator right here on BG. nice to meet you.

now...what can you tell me about "The Birth of Tragedy?"

[Saga]

oh elphaba thank god satan lost his hold on u, r u ok wut was it like?

[Zalius]

who knows, in 20 years emo may be one of those unspeakable words

LOL, you're a moron.

welcome to the few, the proud, the elite who take me seriously

[Norelco]

who knows, in 20 years emo may be one of those unspeakable words

LOL, you're a moron.

welcome to the few, the proud, the elite who take me seriously

There was nothing about your post indicating otherwise.

[Saphirea]

Wah the bleeding heart liberals need to lighten the fuck up. Do I think she was right in saying it? No, but people need to stop jumping to all of these PC bullshit functions and just let words be words.

[Norelco]

Wah the bleeding heart liberals need to lighten the fuck up. Do I think she was right in saying it? No, but people need to stop jumping to all of these PC bullshit functions and just let words be words.

There's a huge difference between being politically correct and publicly slurring someone. Huge difference.

[Marquisate]

Wah the bleeding heart liberals need to lighten the fuck up. Do I think she was right in saying it? No, but people need to stop jumping to all of these PC bullshit functions and just let words be words.

What does "Political Correctness" have to do with anything? If you admit she was wrong to publicly slur Edwards, then what remains to be said? You think words like "faggot" should be tolerated in public, let alone in our political discourse?

Coulter is scum. She makes a living by catering to the lowest common denominator in political thought - people who see politics as an ugly slugfest between indivisible camps and who take a sadistic pleasure in spitting on their perceived "enemies" in an absurd "culture war". She has nothing constructive to say about the future of this country, and she has nothing of value to add to political discourse. She's destructive, vile and hate-filled; an abominable human being.

[Devek]

Jesus Christ, was a nigger.

[Marquisate]

i never thought i'd find SparkNote's creator right here on BG. nice to meet you.

now...what can you tell me about "The Birth of Tragedy?"

Sorry to disappoint, but I'm just a bored law school student with too much time on my hands 8)

I can tell you that "The Birth of Tragedy" is one of Nietzsche's worst works, and that IMO it mostly adds up to a BJ for Schopenhaeur and Wagner. Then again, I don't really have the patience for philosophy (or philology), so take that opinion with a grain of salt. I feel sorry for you for having to read it, your professor must be quite the sadist

[Charla]

Jesus Christ, was a sand nigger.

fixed

*runs*

[Zalius]

who knows, in 20 years emo may be one of those unspeakable words

LOL, you're a moron.

welcome to the few, the proud, the elite who take me seriously

There was nothing about your post indicating otherwise.

have you ever seen anything else i have ever posted

I USED THE WORD UNSPEAKABLE FOR CHRIST'S SAKE

subtlety isnt my strong point i guess

[Saphirea]

And let me guess, none of you have ever referred to any of your friends as gay or anything else in jest?