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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: 2 Steubenville Football Players Found Guilty of Rape [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Some actions are disciplined precisely by being shunned, by being prohibited utterly and cast in the trash can as soon as they are performed. You use the word n*gger in my house, you're out the fucking door in under ten seconds, and if some purists want to consider that "censorship," so be it. We have standards of politeness here, but they're only standards if they're enforced.
I show my kids how bad those words are they are by shitcanning the user immediately and with no exceptions. Not by arguing the merits of "n*gger" or "c*nt" as words.
Casual promotion of rape is one of those actions for me - precisely because it is undertaken so casually. When so many people on even a progressive board laugh about and actively wish for RAPE as a punishment, we're in "N*gger" at the dinner table territory, circa 1975. And it gets squashed only if good people stand up and say NO, enough, out, unacceptable. We don't need more "examples. We need more enforcement of basic decency.
ann--- casually promoted rape as punishment. We don't need an "argument" about that. We need unequivocal statements and actions from Administrators that say such horrendous actions are beyond the pale, and those performing those actions are out the door.