Protesters say no to ‘nigga, bitch and ho
From News.com.au
ACTIVIST Reverend Al Sharpton organised rallies across the US overnight calling for pension funds to be pulled out of the music industry until rap lyricists stop employing the “n-word” and terms degrading to women.“We’re talking about Viacom, Time Warner, Vivendi,” three entertainment conglomerates that Mr Sharpton said would be pressured to clean up musicians’ lyrics if threatened by the withdrawal of government-run pension fund investments.
Time Warner sold its music business, including such labels as Atlantic and Reprise, to a private equity group in 2004.
“The opposition has tried to use the argument of free speech, but they don’t have the freedom to use peoples’ pension funds against their own will and interest,” Mr Sharpton, a 2004 presidential candidate, said from Detroit, where he deplored the use of “nigga”, “bitch” and “ho” - slang for whore - in popular music.
I agree that the usage of those, and many other terms are offensive. However, we cannot stomp on the 1st amendment.
From Wikipedia
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is a part of the United States Bill of Rights. It prohibits the federal legislature from making laws that establish religion (the “Establishment Clause”) or prohibit free exercise of religion (the “Free Exercise Clause”), laws that infringe the freedom of speech, infringe the freedom of the press, limit the right to assemble peaceably, or limit the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Banning words is silly. People will simply come up with new words to replace them. Someone needs to give Sharpton a real job. As Santa says.. “ho ho ho”.
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Just say “ho”! Hehehe. In trying to get my kids to quit using bad words, I discovered they found substitute words that had the same meaning or intent. So I started punishing them on the intent behind the word used.
Lucy:
Now THERE is a good idea…punishment for INTENT.
Man, would that change the face of so many of society’s ills!
Oh wait, society doesn’t punish all that much for ACTUAL CRIME, let alone INTENT.
That could be a sticky wicket.
B.G.