Self-censorship
Posted by dumbwhore on May 21st, 2003 filed in UncategorizedI’m not sure what to say about it. It, to me, is more cowardly than censorship itself. A governing agency that censors someone at least stands up in some arena and says “No, you can’t say fuck the billy goat with a toothpick” Even if that arena is the TV studio where only 5 people hear it.
To write something, have the courage to state it or publish it, and then to repent is to me cowardly. I have no problem with publishing under a pen name. I think that there are reasons to divorce yourself from political influences at work and at home.
When I see self-censorship I think of Private Pyle, choking himself on his drill sergeant’s hand.
Have I ever written something I wish I hadn’t? Yes. Would I take any of them back? No. Because how would I ever know that I was the only person to ever see it published? Better to accept your fuckup and let it ride. If people disapprove, they probably didn’t really know you in the first place.
It’s just FUCKING ANTI-AMERICAN. Grab your balls and say it or shut the fuck up and ship out to Cuba.
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