Why is the "N" word against blacks bleeped out during radio shows but the "C" word against whites isn't?

MCPO Roger Collins - Thank you, sir. I try.

I do not want to vote but I have to in order to respond? That kinda makes me mad. So, instead I have to post under some one else's response to be heard. Your question or survey should have included Yankee. Yankee was originally a pejorative word. Yet we have an incredibly popular professional baseball team who use it as their mascot and no one gets upset.

SGT (Join to see) - When we assign words the kind of power through an attempt to ban them, we only make them more of a boogey man. You can no more ban a word than you can ban a thought and we should never want the government involved in banning words. It is a precedent none of us should want.

A real concern is that over 40% of the people on this site (in your survey) think we should ban one or both of them. These are people that took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States which calls for free speech. Banning words is banning speech. As idiotic or offensive as some speech might be, banning it or words is the antithesis to a truly free people. If you value your freedom to speak you should value others even of you find the content offensive.

You also only push some underground. Right now, we have groups in the streets on all sides showing themselves to be the idiots they are. That is the Klan, Nazi's, ANTIFA, BLM, Occupy, Anarchists etc. The real issue for me is that some (even on this site) will not condemn violence and hatred from all of these groups, only some.

Fahrenheit 451

[W]e know who they are and are put on notice to exclude them from polite company."
Very well put CPT Jack Durish . Thank you for your Service and your insight.

PO1 John Crafton - I included a bi-racial relationship and marriage in my first full length novel. It was easy writing about the tensions it would cause with friends and family since I grew up in the American South prior to the Civil Rights Movement and my father was one of the most virulent bigots I ever knew. Even the mother of the groom in my story who was reasonably tolerant says, "...but I don't want him to have any black babies". Strong friendships and family ties can endure a lifetime. They don't snap until stressed and nothing stresses a relationship like bigotry.

PO1 John Crafton - Having grown up in the South I was used to being called a bigot. It was easy to assume, especially if they ever met my father. And I never heard anyone in the South deny it. If you asked them if blacks were [name the prejudice] they'd say of course and they like watermelon too. Northerners would never admit to being prejudiced. I believe that Southerners came to grips with their prejudices much sooner because of this open acceptance of who they were. Northerners were just as prejudiced but never willing to admit it. It's much the same as AA. The first step to sobriety is admitting you are an alcoholic. As for the other things, such as religion, how well I remember those days. I never went to a wedding where there was peace, just two families staring at each other across a dance floor at the reception. At one, I got tired of it and went outside for a smoke. I discovered a Greek wedding going on in the hall above the one where my family was fully engaged in battle. I was pulled inside and given a drink when I stuck my nose in to see what all the commotion was about. Had a wonderful time (but then both families shared the same Greek Orthodox faith)