Posted by Peter H on August 01, 2009 at 21:01:34 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: Bowdlerisation (was Profound disagreement (was Thoughts on ) posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on August 01, 2009 at 20:28:17:
"very agreeable forum" - not in my opinion. I have been seriously depressed by some of the "arguments" being presented. Once again we have had all this 4th Form stuff about "slippery slope" and "Nazis". One Tarboarder actually said that he was at a loss to understand why people objected to the 'n' word. Well, try being a black person! Or imagine that you are. Read the life stories of Martin Luther King, or Billie Holiday. For heaven's sake !!
but oh no, in our cosy little Ransome world we want everything to stay the same and hang other people's feelings. I suggest you all get back to Beckfoot plumbing - a safe little mini-topic, 3 million miles from reality.
So I support Andrew C-B, but by the way Andrew, I read the Telegraph, so no more cheap jibes about newspapers, eh? This has been a bad couple of days for Tarboard.