Will the PC people demand the term "yellow fever" be removed from text books to keep from offending china?
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Good one.\nAnd mabe pretty accurate.
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Just type using proper English, and you'll set a good example, at least.  I don't think Internet slang is going away, and isn't there something more important in the world to peeve about?   The Middle East, Poverty, Globalization?
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I agree except for one thing. I'm absolutely not bothered by discussions on cheating, either.\n\nI think censorship is never acceptable. I don't like it either when they replace 'dirty words' by asterisks. Like nobody knew what the actual words are! Like children are going to be hurt by reading something! If they're not ready for it, they won't even understand it! And the words themselves hurt no one. It's the ideas behind them that can hurt, and children just don't give words the same meanings we adults do. Doesn't it seem we're only protecting the children's parents from the awkwardness of having to explain something they're not ready to talk about? We aren't protecting children. We are protecting ourselves from children! Shame on us!\n\nBesides, who can be so prude to be upset by the words, rather than (if we ARE going to be upset) by the concept or the situation? I mean, you may be offended by the image of, say, a particular sexual activity. But it's the act what offends you. Not the word or words used to name that act. So, if you can't read the word, all that can happen is that you're going to identify the missing or censored word from the context, and that will offend you, too.
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Move to a country where censorship is permissable.\nIf you get to remove from the PUBLIC library what YOU find objectionable, then I get to remove what offends ME, and so does the next guy, before long, you have an empty library.
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Yes. Ask the Chinese Governement/ Chinese.\nThere are related issues.\n\nthen you will know why.
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No shitt, it's just the big wigs trying to compete with china's cheap labor at the expense of our country's values.\nI'm sick of it. I think any company doing this should be shut down and the owners prosecuted
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Sometimes I get on "News Discuss" and the profanity is the worst I have ever read. They call it "trolling" as an excuse. Sometimes young people are interested in the topics also and all they have to do is depress the "Discuss" icon and they are in the discussion board. \nAlso when I surf the web for certain topics, some of the titles are inviting you to a porn site or anything that is not recommended for innocent children. Parents can program the computer, but some of these kids nowadays know more about computers than older people. Some children can override their parents desires by out-computing their parents. Something has to be done\n\nAbsoultely nothing. If parents are afraid their children are being exposed to something questionable, then the parents should make a point of supervising their children whenever possible. It might not be a perfect plan, but it's better than censorship
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No just prejudice and sick for bringing up such a subject. By the way what does this have to do with politics or government?
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Yuck, I'll be sure not to fry an egg on a sidewalk on a hot day in China.\n\nAlso for the time being, until I get the word, I'm not picking any chewing gum off the ground anymore to recycling it either.
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You should go to china , Once upon a time (about 20 years ago),China government implemented a social movement against criminal activities called "yangda" ----burglary,rape,robbery,bribery etc...anything could sentence to immediate execution by gun-shot (relatives paid for bullets fee, How miserly the government is!!!)
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I believe it is mostly because it was used as a derogotory term by people, much in the same way that Negro was. There's nothing essentially offensive about it, it just means "eastern" in Latin, and Asian is just from the Greek word Asia, which didn't even describe all of what is now considered Asia. So, it has more to do with how the word was used than the word itself.
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First let me say that I agree with you whole-heartedly.  In fact your example word is a good one, and if this is a site for 13 + year olds, I cannot see why it should be *'ed out.\nI tend to agree with Lenny Bruce.  S M U T is in the mind of the beholder.  Yet since Victorian times, our society has taken the view that what you do and say in private should never be reflected in public.  So we end up with priests who abuse young boys and book thumpers who swoon at the thought of the word phuck.\nSo I have to write about Richard Chaney and call a male chicken a rooster.  All because some see themselves as better than those of us common people who use common (vulgar does mean common) words.\nI understand why Yahoo does what it does.  The last thing it needs is a group of politically power fanatics stomping their cyberbutts for allowing crude language.\nYet Mary did ride an ass into Bethlehem.  And Peter did deny knowing Christ three times before the cock crowed.  And Noah did know his daughters and none of this is bleeped out of their Bibles.\nOkay, we try to watch our potty-mouths, but sometime bending over backwards to avoid offending someone is not the best way to become closer to Divinity.\nAny by the way, outside of direct reference in prayer, the use of the name G_d is still a sin, even if quoted by a so-called righteous person in an argument.
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Yes, it is not racist to want to preserve your culture. So, ignore the childish name callers.
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its just plain 'ol censorship\nnothing you can do about it
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Organisations such as Reporters Without Borders have made that accusation. However, Yahoo has denied it saying it "never releases information to the Chinese Government."
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I couldn't agree with you more.  I mean, have you seen some of the screen names Yahoo allows the members to have?  That alone is enough to ban my kids from this and I haven't even started on some of the questions that get posted.  And who cares about being able to report something as abuse.  In a matter of seconds, inappropriate questions have already had their effect on kids probably on the site just looking for homework help.  Horrible.  Yahoo needs to install a language monitor so if a question has certain words, it is reviewed before it is posted.
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Sorry to burst your bubble! Yes it's true, they come under-titled in Chinese! There are lots of pirated movies on the streets in Africa.