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hughento
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« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2004, 11:31:06 PM » |
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I think it has a slightly dfferent connotation in our countries. Here, it is used to mean a violent and inciteful,usually unwarrented, and completely unaccepted attack on a person or group of people. I'm not sure what it is in america, but here, saying something like (and this isn't my opinion AT ALL)
"The in' chinks are invading our land! We need to murder them all, bomb their houses, slash their children, destroy their businesses and eradicate their poisonous scent from our country"
is considered hate speech, and nobody should be exposed to thatkind of thing. Can you imagine if you were an 8 year old chinese girl and you heard that on the radio?
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