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03-01-07
First, for every single instance of actual discrimination against people for being white, there's twenty incidents of angry white males going on a self-righteous tirade about how "Minorities/women have it easier!" and bitching about how there's no justice for reverse racism. See: Borat for more information. Seriously. Just shut up. You do have it easier than everyone else. Racism and sexism aren't phantom threats people made up in a vast conspiracy just to make it slightly harder for you to get an office job maybe.
The actual measure doesn't carry any weight of law, which is the only reason it's not flagrantly unconstitutional. The city council of New York decided that passing a law that carries no penalty but strongly speaks out against the use of the word nigger will make teenagers less likely to use it. It can be inferred that no one on the city council of New York has ever met or been a teenager. When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
- John Adams |