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No there is not. Speech is speech. Maybe in places like Canada and other politically correct ****ed up countries they made a so called distinction between the two, but not here in the US.
Bull. Even in the US, there's a difference seen between, for example "I don't like group X" and "Group X should all be shot". Hate speech is hate speech, whether it's being said in Canada, the US or the damn Moon.
jamesrage said:Regardless of the reasons it is hypocritical for one group of people to piss and moan about another group using a word if they themselves use that word regardless of the context of the word being used. If you actually believed that the word was racist not only would you not use it you wouldn't tolerate others using it regardless of their skin color or the context in which they are using the word. The only thing you are doing is defending blatant hypocrisy.
No, jamesrage, I'm not. I'm saying that if a group of opressed people are trying to rob a hateful word of it's power against them by reclaiming it for themselves, I'm hardly going to tell them they should stop doing so. If it helps them get through the day, fine by me. When I can't even stop people from using a certain word hatefully, it'd be supremely arrogant for me to wander in and try to condemn it's usage amongst the people who've been hurt by it the most. I also find it extremely arrogant and hypocritical that you, as someone who's shown a penchant for racist words himself, would see yourself as qualified to tell groups injured by racism exactly what words they should/should not be using.