Since a few of you are so set on discussing hate speech, I figured I'd open a debate thread about it. Is hate speech acceptable in satire? Or should it never be used? Feel free to debate other aspects of hate speech. Not that you wouldn't anyway.

Haha.

Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

I almost mentioned that. The book's a classic but it's banned in many schools due to the...hate speech.

We have freedom of speech in America, but a lot of people are going to start hating you if you use derogatory phrases. In satire, however, you are using the same word to say the exact opposite thing, and as long as it's obvious and no one with a brain thinks you are serious, then it's fine...even encouraged. TO take a word that people hate and fear and turn it into something that ridicules itself is an art.

Well I'm glad you think so. How can you even get to the root of the problem without exposing it? To Kill A Mockingbird is another example, though I'm not really a fan of it. I remember in English class when we read it, we had to read it out loud and my friend got to the, er, n-word, and he read it out loud exactly as it was and the teacher is like "NO, we can't do that! Just skip over those words."

Well, then why the fuck are we reading To Kill A Mockingbird?

How can you understand the book, which is about tolerance, if you pretend there is nothing offensive in the book?