April 27, 2007
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04/26/07
- An Angry Reader Reveals Reverse Assimilation At USC And In The Bronx
Today’s Letter:
A Reader Reproaches Us For Not Spelling Things Out
Re:
Cho’s Professor Nikki Giovanni: Teaching Hate At
Virginia Tech By
Steve Sailer
From: Jane McClelland [email]
Steve Sailer "pushes
the envelope too much?" What's envelope-pushing
about quoting Nikki Giovanni's racist trash with those
silly asterisks added in?
Do you think we're children who will faint at the
sight of the word "ni**er?"[VD*R*.c*m
note: The reader
used the actual word here, of course.] Are
you protecting your readers from her or are you
protecting her from herself?
Treat us like adults, please. Either provide nothing
but a link to a website that doesn't do this sort of
juvenile censoring or just print the damn poems as she
wrote them. They say more about her than any commentary
could.
James Fulford writes:
The concept behind such censorship is simple decency. I
realize there's not
a lot of that going
around these days, but there are some things that
shouldn't be said. The
word in question adds nothing to the debate. And the
censorware companies
give us
enough grief as it is.
And as Winston Churchill said when he declared war on
Japan,
"It costs nothing to be polite."
If you absolutely must see
bad words,
Lifehacker reports that
someone has written a Firefox plugin to "Uncensor
the internet," a script
that replaces standard asterisks in the
"S*v*n Words you can't say on T*l*vision."
It doesn't cover the "N-Word," but it can be
customized. I note that the Martini Republic blog,
which originally had posted the poem
"The True Import",
without any asterisks,
has
taken it down because it's
been used "at
some sites to inspire contempt for Ms. Giovanni,"
which would be us, of course.
