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In reply to the discussion: NSFW. Old shriveled, limp dick, pasty cracker [View all]BainsBane
(57,751 posts)I was prepared to take a hide, which would have been my fifth, in order to make the point. It needed saying.
I got two hides for this:
Some will hide anything of mine, regardless of content, as juror 6 made clear. The more salient point, however, is that people are more than happy to declare to be freedom of speech insults against those they see as lesser, but are not so tolerant of insults toward people like them. The alert and some of the comments in here show as much.
You were supportive of the thread using vulgar insults to women and others, but you have issues with this one. I find that interesting. That is the point I wanted to explore. I wanted to show that what we regard as free and acceptable speech is bound by who we are.