Words Can Hurt And Kill Me

[Shana A]

Monday, December 06, 2010
Words Can Hurt And Kill Me
Posted by Monica Roberts at 3:00 AM

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/12/words-can-hurt-and-kill-me.html

One of the things that far too many people in the United States presume, especially in conservative circles, is that hate speech is harmless.

Try peddling that c--- to someone whose people have been on the wrong end of it.

Minority groups know all too well that hate thoughts lead to hate speech which leads to hate violence.   If we don't get a grip on that hate violence it can escalate to genocidal levels.

We've been having in the trans community lately a debate about '->-bleeped-<-' and whether it is as people on one side of the argument claim is a harmless word that needs to be reclaimed or as people on the other side of the debate contend is a hateful slur with no redeeming value..