i never understood why it has been aceptable to have records about murdering and decaptiating gays but the same for lynching blacks is seen as the opitomy of shame.
absolutly staggering

My point is about the hypocrisy of the BBC ruling/decision.

If the word was nigger, paki, cunt, kike, etc, they would not have even attempted to bleep the word out, the song would have been banned outright. They also would not have backed down to the pressure of the public on the issue.

Ban everything that is offensive in this world and then we can all rejoice safely in our lovely little bubble-wrapped land…

For anyone who doesn't know, BBC radio pulled the song "Fairytales of New York" by the Pogues because of the phrase "yer a cheap, lousy faggot" saying it was anti gay and also the term "slut" for being anti women. Then beeped out the 2 offending words. The British public were nuts over beeping out faggot, saying it's a common insult, so it should be left in.

The irony is that the BBC will not allow songs with certain words, like nigger, paki, cunt, ect because they are deemed offensive, yet they have now signaled that the word faggot isn't offensive.

Many UK forums tried defending allowing the word by claiming it was a type of meatball common in the Midlands or a bundle of sticks. Another defense of the word was that in southern Ireland, it meant bitter old woman nearly 200 hundred years ago.

Sadly, this is all a crock of shit because even the lead singer of the Pogues admits that the word is used as an insult referring to gay men.