Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

I believe in Equal Opportunity words. This isn't an Equal Opportunity word. Therefore, I stick to my previous conclusions about it. I went back to work today and I had a good look at a bunch of people who are my friends and coworkers. I decided they don't deserve an ugly word such as "nigger" to des...

Mark, I didn't realize how ANGRY I was about this subject until I started posting. We all have the right to be human beings FIRST and members of a race second or third. I do mean ALL of us. ALL. This crap about race is mostly BS. It is about skin color. I am not going to sit here and argue anything ...

I don't know about "Jesus-like." What freaks me out is reading about this man, Hitler, and realizing that he was so much like the rest of us in so many important ways. We are fond of calling him crazy, but I am up to 1935 in this book and I don't see "crazy" yet. I see wrong. I see evil being done, ...

I am not certain where you are getting that I am judging others. Probably I implied it somewhere along the line. I don't really know why this word is used in any context directed at living human beings. I just wish it wasn't. I am constantly amazed at how people can use words loaded with meaning and...

You have no real claim to judge the use of this word so strongly by people it is/was meant to oppress. Does language "define" people? Can a word be reclaimed from oppressors by rendering it a toothless parody of itself through repetition You have no real claim to judge the use of this word so stron...

I keep posting to this. I can't help myself. I keep reading the comments and having more to say: the reason why I brought this topic up to begin w/is b/c I just can't seem to understand why white people who are offended by the word seem to be more so than the black people who are offended by it. For...

P.S. Since I forgot to say it -- yes, I do think words have power. And I think it is easier to invest them with power by the meaning and history we give the word, than it is to take the power of a word away. You say, yourself, that you are offended by the term "African American." I agree, but that j...

I had this a reply to this post a couple weeks ago, but for some reason it didn't take. In the meantime, the conversation seems to have diverged a lot .... In answer to your question: yes, it does offend me. It also horrifies me. Language defines people, so why are you using the language of the oppr...

Stilltrucking, in a search for some information about Hitler, I just discovered HNN and registered there. I also responded to the article you just quoted, then came here in search of some response to the execution of Saddam Hussein. I haven't read Hannah Arendt's book, but now I'm interested. Just a...

Excuse me for resurrecting this, but I wanted to throw my two cents in .... I don't see what's so shocking about the article, considering when it was written. Look at any time prior to 1955 and you'll easily find similar unenlightened advice. It isn't so long ago when women were chattel, property. T...

sorry, I don't know where you can get a weekly rental. As for 900$ that is an awful lot for one lousy room. I pay 850$ for about 900 square feet with all the usual trimmings. I think that is a lot considering it's not exactly a fancy place or appealing neighborhood. Downtown can be tough. In this pa...

Mnaz ... there HAVE been just wars. Will there be just war again? I sort of doubt it. We live in an overcrowded world now, where everyone is just fighting for resources, increasingly. War is not a concept I would automatically condemn or automatically approve, but the way the future looks, war looks...

No state seems to know what goes on in other states, you said. I doubt it's completely true, but there are some blind spots between CO and CA, for instance. My drving record did not follow me and some insurances believe I am clean(I am) while others assume the worst when they cannot see the whole pi...

Sooo ... I admit I've been gone for a while, but what are you doing in DENVER and getting in trouble with the police, no less? I don't know what part of "Denver" proper you consider a visual orgasm. It is not the ugliest city I have ever seen, nor is it the most beautiful. To be overwhelmed by visua...

As a vile, bitter hag, I say unto you: GO. GET A LIFE. A real life. I mean. I am the:"So if you're a pretty girl with a truly astoshing number of men wishing to be a part of your ilk... I say only this: One day you will become old and withered and you cheekbones will sag and your ilk will dissipate ...