Curious

I saw something today on someone else's blog ranting about spics and chinks and kikes and statements like "faggots are the niggers of the 21st century" and general epitaphs reserved for the ignorant and weak of mind. Now I respect the right of ANYONE to free speech, whether their speech hurts someone else or not. I think its one of the essential tenets of our republic. In fact, it IS. But I wonder if the people writing those things feel better when they think they're putting someone else down? Or is it just because they really have nothing to say or remotely legitimate reasons for saying those things. I think its akin to the old adage that says, in essence, that showing off is the ignorant man's way of having something to say (or being interesting).

I cannot imagine, even as a recovered bigot (yes, believe it or not, The Voice was ONCE a dyed-in-the-wool Republican with false ideas so right that in my first presidential primary I actually voted for Pat Buchanan instead of George H. W. Bush!), I look back and see that I was saying derogatory things just to have something to say because I hadn't thought anything through in my own mind. I was a puppet to those around me, greatly my family, and hadn't even been allowed to form my own opinions.

I was just wondering aloud.

Can calling me a pinko, faggot, asshole, card-carrying member of the ACLU, liberal motherfucker actually make someone else feel better? If so, then as the bleeding heart that I am, let it be and fill your boots! I yield to that old childhood mantra: "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." (Unless, of course, they're inscribed in the United States Constitution and prohibit some rights guaranteed to all to some people!)

In the words of that wonderfully effective president, er, I mean First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent!"

Best wishes,
The Voice
Still licking my wounds from the 2000 and 2004 elections!
(P.S. Check out what Bill Clinton said about the Democrats and the presidential election. Sounds kinda like what I've been saying this last week! Maybe President Clinton reads The Voice) http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/914797.cms or http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041106-055531-3474r.htm to check out reports of President Clinton's true remarks.