I went to ABCnews.com and on their front page they have a story about the those wretched hatemongering Primitive Baptist cunts from Kansas (whose name I will not type...but I do desperately wish they'd get lubelessly violated with one of these) and their designs to protest Heath Ledger's funeral because he was in Brokeback Mountain. And right there, on their cunt signs on ABCnews, they have the word "fag" scrawled across it.
Why is that word okay to say and show? If it had been, I don't know, cunt, then they would have blurred it out...how is fag more acceptable than cunt? I have the same problem with edited for television movies that will leave in nigger but dub out fuck. I don't get it. Do you? How is fuck worse than fag?
Seems to me if they want to protect little ones from offensive language, then the slurs, irregardless of context, need to be cut and fuzzed out along with every cunt, fuck and shit. It only seems fair to me. Now, I'm not for censorship, I don't want them to go around banning words or anything, no siree...but I can't see the logic in allowing slurs to be shown, yet blurring far less offensive swear words. Makes no sense.
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January 24, 2008
Question About Censorship
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Very good points, Mr. Bwyan.
I also wonder what people hope to achieve with picketing...I don't know anyone who's gone, "Oh! You know, I used to be pro-choice but now that I've looked at your 5-foot poster of a dismembered fetus, I've changed my mind." Or "Oh, God hates non-kansas-baptists? Wow, I thought he loved everyone...well, look at that: I think I've just converted!"
To be fair, they hate Kansas baptists, too. I've had to drive by their protests enough to know how much GOd hates me and everyone I know.
I like Erin Davies's moxie:
http://www.fagbug.com/
All good points from the commenters and post, however, television censorship can be greatly entertaining. I give the greatest example from Comedy Central's wondrous editing of "The Big Lebowski" when Walter is beating the hell out of the car with a golf club. In the original: "See what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass?" is changed to: "See what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?" Beautiful. And as far as the Kansas Baptist freaks, they need a hobby. I'd suggest needlepoint.
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