Radio 1 refusing to play Fairytale of New York without edit.

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The fact you keep saying this makes you look so short sighted and thick it's unbelievable.

ad hominem really is your MO. you just cannot abide anyone holding a different view point to you own. Maybe we should just make you king of the world, since you're so enlightened.

You're obviously an intelligent guy but you can't appear to grasp the actual point here. The fact you say anyone disagreeing with you is offended just paints you out as being short sighted and narrow minded. You haven't managed to give one reasonable argument about why banning the word is bad other than people shouldn't be offended.

the point is quite clear to me - people get offended over words, meanings of which change over time.

I honestly had the exact same opinion as you, but reading a lot around the subject made me appreciate that maybe I just didn't understand how it feels for people who are the ones affected.

I've been on the receiving end, and gave any such comments the consideration they deserved

Sometimes there is nothing wrong with holding your hands up and saying "I don't understand this and if it makes people's lives better while not making anyone else's life worse why not try and understand it"

I go back to my point, you're suggesting that words themselves can make someone's life miserable. no one is advocating promoting racism, homophobia or any form of bigotry and hatred. We even have laws that stop the promotion of such things, and its quite correct that we do.