Seriously, an actual poll was needed to find this out?”
on September 21st, 2011 at 7:22 am“Teens and twentysomethings say in an Associated Press-MTV poll that people feel freer to use hurtful language when texting on their cellphones or posting to sites like Facebook than they would face to face. Half the young people regularly see discriminatory slang – including racial taunts and words like “slut,” “fag” and “retard” – and the majority say they aren’t very offended by it.” (read more…)
I am willing to bet they would have found similar results with the older demographic as well. Most of the complaining over accusations that “X” used discriminatory language is nothing more than an attempt to weaponize everyday language used by numbers of people. In the process, those doing most of the complaining do nothing but hold others to a much higher standard than they hold themselves.
