**** Elections thread *****

[OngBonga]

Do you think the word 'nigger' has the same connotation when Dr. Dre says it as when the grand wizard of the KKK says it?

No, but the right to say it, or the onus to not say it, is equal.

[Poopadoop]

No, but the right to say it, or the onus to not say it, is equal.

So, if there were a Russian word 'fuckov' that meant 'a book', I should be able to use it in any library or bookstore around the world?

"What would you like sir?' 'Fuckov'. But since I can't do that without offending librarians and booksellers, it proves the world is anti-Russian?

The fact that black people have a different dialect than white people is not evidence of racism any more than two languages having different meanings for words that sound the same is evidence of them being intolerant of each other. The word means different things depending on who's saying it.