Little People Call For FCC To Ban 'midget' Oh come on now.

[Intestinal fluids]

Whats next? Smart people call for FCC to ban 'egghead'? This is ridiculous. Nobody dragged dwarfs from across Oceans and Continents and whipped them in cotton fields yelling "Midget!" yet they want the same protections that real racist phrases get.

(AP) Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word "midget" on broadcast TV.

The group Little People of America said Sunday the word is just as offensive as racial slurs.

The request was prompted by an April episode of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" that the group said was demeaning.

In the episode, contestants created a detergent ad called "Jesse James and the Midgets." The contestants, including Joan Rivers, suggested bathing little people in the detergent and hanging them to dry.

Calls to the FCC and "Celebrity Apprentice" host Donald Trump were not immediately answered Sunday. NBC Universal representatives didn't immediately respond to e-mail messages, and the telephone rang unanswered at their Los Angeles office.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/ ... 4530.shtml

[Colonic Immigration]

That's utterly ridiculous.

[Ifreann]

Censorship offends me, can I make the FCC ban that?

[Milks Empire]

Censorship offends me, can I make the FCC ban that?

Not something I would oppose, when it comes right down to it. There's this little device called the remote. Don't like what a show says? Find a different one that doesn't say it.

[Phenia]

To be fair, "midget" is kind of offensive...

They should be called Hobbits! 'Oh look, here comes Frodo, is that ring heavy enough for ya love? Ha ha ha ha! Aw, its little Proudfoot, is 'e getting a widdo angwy? Ha ha ha!'


Yes, I have a spot reserved for me in hell, thanks.

[North Korea and France]

Whats next? Smart people call for FCC to ban 'egghead'? This is ridiculous. Nobody dragged dwarfs from across Oceans and Continents and whipped them in cotton fields yelling "Midget!" yet they want the same protections that real racist phrases get.

People only get to be protected from diffamation and verbal abuse when their distance ancestors were whipped on cotton fields?

It's all or nothing. Niggers & Midgets, or not.

[Linux and the X]

/me gets on-air
"MIDGET MIDGET MIDGET MIDGET MIDGET MIDGET!"

[Milks Empire]

/me gets on-air
"MIDGET MIDGET MIDGET MIDGET MIDGET MIDGET!"

*sees little people storming out of the distance*
"Uhh... Linux? Look to your left..."

[Lunatic Goofballs]

Whats next? Smart people call for FCC to ban 'egghead'? This is ridiculous. Nobody dragged dwarfs from across Oceans and Continents and whipped them in cotton fields yelling "Midget!" yet they want the same protections that real racist phrases get.

People only get to be protected from diffamation and verbal abuse when their distance ancestors were whipped on cotton fields?

Yes. If a term is used in a derogatory manner to dehumanize an entire class of people then it has a more profound meaning than one used to ridicule and belittle.

It's all or nothing. Niggers & Midgets, or not.

No it isn't.

[Dyakovo]

To be fair, "midget" is kind of offensive...

How is midget offensive?

[Lizardiar]

Like Raphie May has said,

"You're not a dwarf unless you are in the direct position of a battle-axe."

[North Korea and France]

Whats next? Smart people call for FCC to ban 'egghead'? This is ridiculous. Nobody dragged dwarfs from across Oceans and Continents and whipped them in cotton fields yelling "Midget!" yet they want the same protections that real racist phrases get.

People only get to be protected from diffamation and verbal abuse when their distance ancestors were whipped on cotton fields?

Yes. If a term is used in a derogatory manner to dehumanize an entire class of people then it has a more profound meaning than one used to ridicule and belittle.

It's all or nothing. Niggers & Midgets, or not.

No it isn't.

So you place less value in midgets than in negros?

[Lunatic Goofballs]

To be fair, "midget" is kind of offensive...

How is midget offensive?

On an 'offense' scale, I'd rate it between 'Four-eyes' and blonde jokes.

[Risottia]

Whats next? Smart people call for FCC to ban 'egghead'? This is ridiculous. Nobody dragged dwarfs from across Oceans and Continents and whipped them in cotton fields yelling "Midget!" yet they want the same protections that real racist phrases get.

By the way: why "little people"? I thought that the proper english word would be "short people", as opposed to "tall people" - iirc, "the little people" are the fairies.

Anyway, and what if I want to search information on the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI ?

[Ifreann]

To be fair, "midget" is kind of offensive...

How is midget offensive?

On an 'offense' scale, I'd rate it between 'Four-eyes' and blonde jokes.

Short blondes with glasses are very unhappy people.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

No it isn't.

So you place less value in midgets than in negros?

Yes. That's why black midgets mess with my head.

Except for Tony Cox. We're cool. *nod*

[Lunatic Goofballs]

How is midget offensive?

On an 'offense' scale, I'd rate it between 'Four-eyes' and blonde jokes.

Short blondes with glasses are very unhappy people.

Indeed.

[Exilia and Colonies]

As someone with interests in the midget gem business I am deeply concerned

[Ashmoria]

well

what other (potentially) offensive terms are banned by the fcc?

ARE other (potentially) offensive terms banned by the fcc?

[Megaloria]

These people need to grow up.

[Milks Empire]

These people need to grow up.

Pun not intended, right?

[Megaloria]

These people need to grow up.

Pun not intended, right?

I wouldn't pull a stunt like that.

[Phenia]

These people need to grow up.

Pun not intended, right?

I wouldn't pull a stunt like that.

That's big of you.

[Iron Chariots]

Well, given that I'm opposed to what the FCC does anyway, I'm against this. Especially with the ease with which parents can now block channels and programs that they find objectionable, I think that television stations should basically be allowed to broadcast more or less whatever the hell they want as long as they aren't doing anything otherwise illegal.

[Iron Chariots]

Pun not intended, right?

I wouldn't pull a stunt like that.

That's big of you.

Well it would be quite belittling of him to make such a joke.