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Search this article for the racial slur that PewDePie yelled out during a livestream, and you won’t find it. The essence of the anti-censorship position, non-g
by hyperpape 8y ago
Search this article for the racial slur that PewDePie yelled out during a livestream, and you won’t find it.
The essence of the anti-censorship position, non-governmental or otherwise, is acknowledging when someone says something that you object to, and nonetheless supporting their right to say it. Sweeping it under the rug is just cowardice.
(I’m being generous in even linking this to censorship of any form. PewDePie is still on YouTube (as he should be allowed to be!), he just wasn’t featured in a highlight reel).
- akhilcacharya 8y ago> Sweeping it under the rug is just cowardice 100% correct. Too often though, this is the default defense-non-defense for all sorts of awful behavior. However, it's a great tactic to try to switch the conversation from a "should" to a "can".
- username90 8y agoTo someone not growing up in America it isn't clear that you can't say the n-word. We see people say it all the time in tv shows so we just copy that. Therefore it makes perfect sense that Europeans uses the n-word without being racist. Once they are told to stop they usually do though.