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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Relique du Madde" data-source="post: 5824271" data-attributes="member: 42169">Personally I am against creating ash heaps for words, symbols, and phrases which had negative historical connotations, may offend, or may make people feel bad orr uncomfortable.The reason is simple: Symbols and words represent knowledge and to deny the existance of those things that represent negatve aspects of culture, society, or history just so that you could feel better about yourself will only lead to humanity repeating those mistakes and causing further harm in the future.Also, remember that some of those "shame" words have other meanings and were coopted or were corrupted.  For instance, the "n world" that ends o is the spanish word for black.   So imagine how it made me feel back in the mid 80s when I didn't think about race (I colored everyone "flesh" in my K-3rd grade crayon based artwork because light pink skin was easier to draw faces on with pencil), and was told that "negro*" was an evil word and that I shouldnt ever draw people who weren't white as having light pink skin even though artistically it worked better and I didnt think about race and I knew at the time that we all were basically the same.  (Sadly, those teachers killed that idealistic notion by saying race matters.)* It should be noted, for those who never heard some of my child hood stories in the HIVE that my teachers brainwashed me to not speaking spanish becuase the slight lisp I spoke with during grade school was "because I spoke spanish" and because "No one at this school speaks spanish except your family so stop speaking it because we won't understand you."  -Sent via Tapatalk</blockquote>

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