Hateful Slurs: Are They Really Hateful?

House of Leaves

-moderator-

over 2 years ago

Don’t confuse the issue.

Anonymouse

over 2 years ago

Isn’t a “hateful slur” by definition hateful? Otherwise it’d just be a “slur.”

Rich Uncle Skeleton

over 2 years ago

MODERATED

Fatima

over 2 years ago

I really wish I hadn’t read this. Now I can’t stop hitting my head on the desk.

you and me both sister. i can’t believe they moderated me. but that’s how it works. the mods disagree with my personal politics or my opinions, so they moderate me. that is their right, i’m not contesting that, but i wonder if it isn’t a vulgar display of power?

Rich Uncle Skeleton

over 2 years ago

well, you were slurring your speech and everyone got kinda worried.

Rich Uncle Skeleton

over 2 years ago

that was so lame, RUS

Elston

over 2 years ago

well, i better sober up with some black coffee. but I’m not sure it will work! hyuk hyuk

Rich Uncle Skeleton

over 2 years ago

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Elston

over 2 years ago

RUS, you are a wizard.

Django

over 2 years ago

What has become if this site? I use to really look forward to reading so many interesting threads on films…now I rarely stop in at the forum and when I do I am always disheartened,

Law

over 2 years ago

Echoing Django’s sentiments.

Came on the forum to read some threads today and left after reading a few posts in the Carney thread.

Johnny DuBiel

over 2 years ago

Regardless if they use it destructively, constructively, whatever…

If you don’t know the difference between the two uses, you are either ignorant or (once again) finding justification for your bigotry

Max

over 2 years ago

I support any action to moderate this entire topic until someone directs the conversation more toward film.

How about…. let’s discuss “Hateful slurs in film vs. Hateful slurs in real life” where we look at what slurs have been, and continue to be, used in films but are taboo in society.

ralch

over 2 years ago

I propose we let this stupid thread die.

LEAVES

over 2 years ago

Eastwood would actually agree with Elston. He even made a movie about it and went around talking about it. It’s not that crazy, but at the same time it’s not exactly a civil rights issue, either. It’s just an issue of unnecessarily needling people. Kind of like how you can get under the skin of people that you know well with certain particular phrases… well, these allow you to get under the skin of people you’ve never met, and that is their origin as pejorative phrases. Thus, the selfish man says, “I shall not bend to the will of others!” because the phrases don’t bother him, while the selfless man says, “I will bend to the will of others, because I don’t want to be like Elston.”

Anonymouse

over 2 years ago

@Rich Uncle Skeleton: On the Christian Bale movie. What exactly is the director doing in that clip? His job is to control the rediculously inflated ego’s of his actors. Stand up for your DP.

Matt Parks

over 2 years ago

“Man makes the word, and the word means nothing which the man has not made it mean, and that only to some other man. But since man can think only by means of words or other external symbols, these might turn around and say: You mean nothing which we have not taught you, and then only so far as you address some word as the interpretant of your thought… … . the word or sign which man uses is the man himself Thus my language is the sum-total of myself; for the man is the thought.”—Charles Peirce