As an immigrant to this country, I feel that US citizens enjoy a great amount of freedoms, and I am proud of this country; even with its “racist” undertones, there is a great amount of dialogue; which is a hellavalot more than can be said about other places. “Is USA perfect?”; <By no means, but we shouldn’t let humor get in the way of social progress, in fact, humor is one of the best paths towards it.

Society:
a: an enduring and cooperating social group whose members have developed organized patterns of relationships through interaction with one another b : a community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests.

If a society does not enforce its rules it will either change the rules to something it will enforce or cease to exist as a society. Those who choose to live outside of the rules live outside of the society.

P.S. *Snickers*

Everyone knows the typical guy-trying-not-to-sound-homophobic phrase “I don’t care what homosexuals do as long as they keep me out of it,” but this does have some merit. Just because someone is oriented towards the same sex rather than the opposite, doesn’t mean that it’s going to affect your life directly.

5 eagles, I am not you so I cannot pretend to know how your thought processes work, but I can’t imagine how you will not “support their cause”. It is no different than someone being a vegetarian (withholding the whole “choice” matter), it is an aspect of THEIR life, that affects THEM, and not you.

*finishes ranting and leaves basket of squeezes for the FBers who had to read this*

There already is censorship in the FB comments. Try posting something with “N-word” in it — it will be blocked. Try posting “bènd over” — it will be moderated. And egregiously offensive comments that do appear here can be, and are, deleted by the FB staff from the website.

You may know, the most distinctive aspect of the human brain anatomy are the frontal lobes. Do you also happen to know what is the most distinctive function of that most distinctive part of our brains? The ability NOT to do things. The frontal lobes provide us the capacity to inhibit our “lower” brain actions (such as the impulses of the so-called “Four F’s” — impulses for feeding, fleeing, fighting, and sex-related behaviors — associated with the hypothalamus).

The “no Limit to Censorship” principle has a certain romantic cachet, but it’s flawed. There are of course limits on expression — “Eric’s” example above is a classic one: shouting “Fire” in a crowded theater. But, at a more insidious and pervasive level, our minds are built to form stereotypes. And when a culture aids and abets the presence of negative, hurtful stereotypes of, for example, members of minority groups, the unchallenged acceptance and tacit “approval” of those stereotypes can and does inflict real harm, both to those persons in the minority and to the culture as a whole.

The main point I am offering is that it makes sense to be sensitive to that fact, especially on a forum that is viewed worldwide and whose express intent is to make a contribution to human happiness.

On the other hand, not too much in Failblog is racially (or sexually) insulting. The point of the racist or homophobic pictures is that the subject of the pictures is racist, and that is a fail- not that the site itself condones these views.

For example, the plastic sign that said ‘Women at work’ with the written-in subtitle, ‘I dout it’. The fail was the spelling, and the thing you laugh about is the kid’s ‘awesome joke’ backfiring, not the anti-feminist views.

We just need to brush off these things, grumble a little and if it truly offends us, move elsewhere. These idiots can only do as much damage as you let them.