Mark Hurvitz wrote:
Dear Nisusoids,
We recently received some odd correspondence regarding the Nisus Thesaurus.
Rather than quoting and responding point by point to this, um, extremely queer exchange, I will simply state:
1. Because Nisus Express does not offer the feature set I need for my work, I am still using 6.5, am was therefore completely unaware that your thesaurus censored anything.
2. Your software should NOT censor ANYTHING.
3. While I didn't know that the thesaurus censored words of any type, I personally find it offensive that it censors "nigger" or ANY other word. Whether one likes or uses the words is irrelevant to the fact that they exist and are used in the English language, as are fuckhead, asshole, idiot, Republican, Liberal, stupid, and wonderful.
A nigger is as different from niggardly as queer is from smart. In other words, they are completely unrelated.
4. My children have been called "Jap", because they are, in fact, half Japanese. But the word "Jap" should still be in the Nisus Thesaurus, uncensored, because it is a pejorative that is, and has been, used in English, both written and spoken. As recently as last weekend.
5. Kill the censor function. Nisus Software, Apple Computer, Microsoft, [insert name, including the United States Government] is not qualified to censor speech, whether it has to do with sexual orientation, racial derivation, or political affiliation.
And you may quote me.
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