11-03-2006, 04:51 PM
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
If I walked into a room where I knew, in advance, that among the crowd were 5 Hindi, and I wore a big red dot on my forehead, loudly told Ghandi jokes, and asked where the monkey brains were, would I be considered rude? Keep in mind that we all have the right to be there, and it is neutral territory, so no particular group has a right over the others.
If I walked into the same room, and knew there were 5 Christians, would it not be considered less rude if I loudly said "Jesus effing Christ, that guy is a goddam idiot."?
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Of course it would. The former is direct insults, and the latter is saying a "bad word" in a way that the vast majority of exclamations in the English language are derived from.
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