Wisdom of the ancients...

[negrito7]

"...by choosing what is good or bad we are men of a certain character, which we are not by holding certain opinions." -Aristotle, Nicomachean EthicsA great reminder from that sage of old...who we are is not determined by what we say we believe but by what we do. This is the difference between the faith that produces fruitful works and the belief

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[icewinddragon]

Well, i certainly agree that to acknowledge the existence of something infavourable is better than to deny it. Maybe including that into your essay might make it something special.

Admittedly, saying that a black person is allowed to say something that a white person is not allowed to say is nothing but a new face of racism to me. Certainly not something that will help.
So, since as you said yourself that banning a word will not change anything, working to change the minds and hearts will indeed be the only approach. Those half-hearted "easy" roads that solve nothing at all are in fact in my eyes only contraproductive.

Pax vobiscum

IcewindDragon

[icewinddragon]

Whoops, sorry, seemingly my comment got displaced.