Halloween costume PC rules: Good idea or[expletive removed]?

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That's the point:

I'm not "asking" anything of anyone.

If you're offended by the fact that people are having a conversation about the impact of negative stereotypes on the greater whole of society, and think these sort of discussions should never happen, you should probably reassess your position on "free speech."

I'm not offended by the discussion at all, I love debating but I just have no problem saying your hurt feelings are your own problem if the solution is the infringe upon the rights of others. There is a lot more than a "polite discussion" going on, this is a war. A war on free speech, a war on freedom of expression, no where is more evident of than our nation's institutions of "higher education" which run kangaroo courts than can get you expelled or fired or at the very least ostracized with no due process or legal representation. Speech crimes are bad enough being trialed in front of these "people's tribunals" but they actually hear cases about real crimes as well. All the leftists in this country beat off to western and especially northern Europe where they have no free speech and offensive speech can quite literally send you to prison. The implications of your beliefs are clear, that is where they lead to and I don't intend to ever let this country reach that place.

Perhaps if you guys don't like free speech you should move to China or Cuba, nobody is ever offended there.

You were in the military weren't you XFilesGeek? Didn't you take an oath the defend and protect our constitution against all enemies; foreign and domestic?

I see, but freedom of expression trumps hurt feelings.

Shouldn't we ban LGBT customes, because they offend some religious people?

Shouldn't these customes be banned ...

There is a vast difference in the level of social privilege and power. Conservative religious folks have actually worked toward reducing the legal equality of LGBT people, not to mention keel dragged them behind pick up trucks until dead.

How is anybody ever tried to prevent you from expressing your opinion? Provide one example please. Pretty please, I said please! I could dig thru the hundreds maybe of thousands of other examples with the shoe on the other foot because it has and always has been totalitarian language control enforce up on academia and then the rest of society. Free speech does not exist on our college campuses anymore which are ruled by arbitrary kangaroo courts, an off color comment can get you expelled or fired from your job. They're even calling the term 'politically correct' a microaggression now, it's hilarious.

'And call me an extremist for free speech all you want, I'd wear that as a badge. As Goldwater said "extremism is the defense of liberty is no vice!"

So feelings only matter when you are a part of a special club? Rights are universal, they don't apply to some people and not to others. We're not equal + 1. The whole point of gays dressing up like that is to be provocative and that is their right, you can personally find it distasteful and even a lot of gays but it analogs it perfectly. Social privilege and power is such a nonsense term, you are an individual not a group. Groups have no rights, individuals have rights. Some of the most powerful socially privileged men and women in the world are gay, some of the most disadvantaged people in the world are the most religiously conservative, we have to look at people as individuals because judging people by groups is what leads to prejudice, racism, homophobia, genocide.

Freeze peach? Your contempt for the constitution and basic human freedom couldn't be more clearer. Have you have ever heard the saying that 'your rights end where mine begin'? Ethics and morals? What does this mean? I think it is unethical and immoral to have speech laws because speech laws as even our founders knew were a tool of despotism. Our 1st Amendment says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

A lot of people know about the Boston Tea Party and the group of patriots who dumped the British tea into the harbor but do you know that had all dressed up as Mohawk Indians before that they did it? Something tells me the Mohawks aren't so upset about that, I think its probably small potatoes in their long line of legitimate grievances but it is pretty funny seeing modern day "liberals" squirm over it, one must be reminded that these people idolize Karl Marx much more than they do Thomas Jefferson or John Adams and despise our constitution and the protections of our GOD GIVEN rights. No, in their mind the power of government and essentially the mob determines what your rights our. That is how the greatest crimes in history have been justified.

Your feelings don't trump my rights, you are not more important me and or anyone else, we are all the same. It doesn't matter if you think you were historically maligned since guess what, so has every peoples on Earth at one time or another and unless you personally have experienced this then your "triggering" is a learned response and not one based in reality. Be courteous of other peoples feelings sure but you and I both know that much more is being asked, you can't sanitize society of everything you don't like or offends you and the people that attempt to are the worst type of authoritarian.

You know a lot of Christians are offended by homosexuals just existing openly in society let alone the government actually recognizing their marriages? They are the majority, do we care about their feelings? No, because we as INDIVIDUALS have inalienable rights endowed to us by our creator and they do not get to dictate what we as individuals do with it so long as it does not infringe on the rights of someone else. There is no "right to not be offended", I am a nice person and will hear you out but you can't or at least shouldn't be able to force your views and beliefs system on me because if you can do it one way then it can be done the other way around. I actually live by a pretty simple moral code, the non-aggression principle and voluntary association. People like me don't hurt people, it's those who think that they can control the actions of others that have and always will be the worst monsters in history.

A person might enter this thread, and then proceed to personally address each of the posters on the thread who advocates unlimited free speech and tell them "if you really believe that then you're a ret*d dumbass". And then each of the people so addressed would get furious, and complain to the moderators. And then the person doing that would get banned from the site. Banned from the site because that person violated the rules of WP limiting free speech!

As a moderator, this is one of the things I see a lot.

The person who started this thread didn't hesitate to come running to the moderators when someone may a disparaging remark about Southerners.

I hear this crap all the time... Do you have ANY first hand experience with what discourse is like on an actual College Campus?

I do, and I can say, from my experience, there's quite a diversity of opinion and healthy debate about social issues. As long as you can defend your position with logic and facts there's no need to fear reprisals of any sort.

Your position is paranoid fantasy. Really.

That last little bit in bold is the only accurate thing you've typed this whole thread (I suspect it was an accident ).

It is precisely because people put each other in groups and judge and dismiss each other by groups that we must advocate for people in groups.

I am not American, and here in Canada we have limits on our free speech written into our Charter of Rights and Freedoms (barring the expression of hate speech and the incitement of violence). So pretty much everything you said to me here is irrelevant. I like the limited free speech my country has, so I plan to stay here.

sure

enjoy your country where you can be fined, sued, or imprisoned for words

proud of your limited speech a happy slave, good for you