New York City to try and Ban the Words Bitch and Ho
The fallout from Don Imus continues. While I am no fan of Don Imus, and I was happy to see him fired, what he said, I believe, had no grounds for his dismissal. You can read here about how New York City is now going to try to ban the words bitch and ho. First of all, ho isn’t a word, it’s slang, but that is neither hear nor there. While these words can be offensive, does a city have the right to ban them? If you start with these words where does it stop. Actually it didn’t start with these words, it started with the “N” word. While the “N” word is much more offensive than bitch or ho, should it be banned? Can we start banning words in this country that some would consider offensive? Who gets to decide what is offensive?
The term is hateful and deeply sexist, said Councilwoman Darlene Mealy of Brooklyn, who has introduced a measure against the word, saying it creates “a paradigm of shame and indignity” for all women.
the bill also bans the slang word “ho”
We had better Wake up in this country. How did we go down a road where banning words is okay, what has happened to our constitution? Political correctness started to indoctrinate Americans into believing that there are some things that we can not, or should not say.
We voluntarily gave into the fact that something that someone might find offensive should not be spoken.
Soon it will no longer be voluntary.
Where does it end?
America's Watchtower 
This is the road of post modern thought. A road where words that offend minority groups (which somehow includes women) can be outlawed for the psychologically damage they allegedly do to these groups. It won’t be long before (and law professors have written law review articles on this) free speech is ONLY allowed to minority groups. These legal “scholars” argue that to level the playing field we must limit free speech rights of whites so that minorities can full express themselves and whites won’t be able to offend them or squelch their free speech by exercising free speech themselves. The whole situation is ridiculous.
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Who would have ever thought that in this day and age we would have our constitutional rights put into jeopardy by the very people who were supposed to uphold them? This new concept of selectively applying the constitution (and other laws for all that matters) is a bunch of crap. How can we consider ourselves a civilized nation when our laws don’t really seem to mean anything? Every time something like this comes along and tramples over the law, it just erodes the entire system and diminishes people’s respect for law. I mean, after all, who wants to obey a law that doesn’t apply to everybody? I know that I don’t.
So much of this goes back to things we’ve talked about in the past – that the PC and liberal crowd doesn’t seem to recognize Americans as Americans. It seems that “American” simply means you live in these borders. Otherwise you’re split up into any number of various sub-groups and treated differently depending upon which sub-group you belong to. Sadly, things like this speech issue just illustrate the act that now laws are beginning to apply differently to each sub-group.
Interestingly, didn’t we fight a civil war, have a woman’s rights movement and have a civil rights movement? Wasn’t the problem that people were being treated differently and by different governing laws and it was eventually deemed unacceptable? How is it that years later, we’re moving right back into that sort of behavior? Of course, this time it’s in favor of the protected or minority classes, so when people stand up and cry foul, they’re shouted down and booed as being white supremacists and bigots. Believe me, I know. The flak that I took for my stance on the Christian/Newsom murders in Knoxville was unbelievable, and stemmed simply from the fact that I called for fairness and equality in law and the media.
It’s a mad mad world we’re becoming.
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Americans are Americans, it shouldn’t matter your color or gender. This whole hyphenated-American bullshit is being perpetrated upon these groups to portray them as victems for the left’s political gain, and I think it is disgusting.
It now appears as female-Americans will be the next group of victems to pursue.
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“This whole hyphenated-American bullshit…”
You’re telling me. I am a Latino-Black-Native American-Dutch-Jewish Christian. I refuse to write that down or say it out loud more than once a day- if that.
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That is a mouthful totaltransformation, you are an American in my book. Country(countries) of origin doesn’t matter, we are all Americans.
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Any word can be considered offensive or triggering to any individual. Any word can cause psychological damage to anyone if it is repeated continuously over time and used with negative connotation. If the word bitch is banned does that mean both the word itself and the definition of it will be removed from the dictionary and if so is that not the same thing as book burning? Then what next every word that everyone finds offensive gets banned and the entire population is walking around mute? Why is it okay for freedom to constantly be taken from us, yet we are fighting a war based on “freedom”. Our loved ones are killing and being killed in the name of freedom yet in the land of the free and home of the brave our basic rights and freedoms our being taken from us. Please enlighten me, and tell me what people are dying for because it is not freedom.
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* are instead of our.Please excuse my grammical error in the heat of the moment.
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You are forgiven. I wish I could enlighten you, but I don’t understand how Americans have grown so soft over the years that we need to ban words that some may be offended by.
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