What You Can't Say

dtolton writes "Paul Graham has an excellent article posted on the subject of things you can't say. His article explores what ideas are generally considered heresy, and whether or not those ideas might be true nonetheless. He also presents advice for handling heretical ideas. Considering that many of the ideas in technology in general and Open Source specifically are near heresy, it's well worth a read."

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Re:Best examples of heresy I can think of

[MBCook]

YES, feminism has ruined our country. If you'd like to see the evidence of things like feminism and political correctness gone wrong, read "The New Thought Police" by Tammy Bruce. If you want to know how feminist ideals have been used to cause serious damage to generations of boys, read "The Way Against Boys" by Christina Hoff Sommers, it's facinating and at the same time quite disturbing.

As for other things you can't say, here are some that I'm going to say...

• Blacks are more racist than whites - There are blacks who make their living doing nothing but turning everything into a race issue (Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, etc)
• Homosexuality IS NOT NORMAL - That's why the work "queer" was used to describe it, becuase it's not normal. I'm not saying that I hate homosexuals or anything (that's not true). Just that it's not normal. Which leads us to...
• Kids are best parrented by a mom and a dad - Not two moms, not two dads, not one of either, not a daycare, not a nanny, A MOM AND A DAD.
• "Tolerace" means tolerate - It does NOT mean that I must accept your weird way of thinking as correct, it just means I will put up with you.
• Prayer is schools is harmless - We had it for years and years, but now because we must "tolerate" one or two crackpot parents, we can't do this, despite the good it does.
• The Democratic party hates Blacks - Despite what they say, they don't like Blacks. They are nothing more than a group they can ask for votes from. The first "Black President" had very few Black people around him and appointed very few minorities, but Bush has appointed tons. Dems are always saying they'll "look out for Blacks", but after 50 years, what's changed for them?
• Black is not a racial slurr - African-american is offensive to me, because you think that you're BLACK first, then American when you say that. It should be the other way around, as with everything. I can understand things like the N* word, but this is rediciulous. Read "The New Throught Police".

I'm sure I could think a TONS more if I had the time. There are many things that you just can't say (despite the fact that they are true).