There seems to be a rash of infantile government censorship sweeping North America. They're removing the N-word from Huck Finn and now the dumb Canadians, based on a phone call from one activist, are banning the song Money For Nothing by Dire Straits.....
From TheSpec via MichelleMalkin -- The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that Dire Straits’ 1980s hit Money for Nothing is too offensive for Canadian radio.
The ruling, released Wednesday, was in response to a complaint against St. John’s radio station CHOZ-FM. The listener complained that the word faggot – which appears three times in the song is “extremely offensive” to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
Since nothing of interest is going on up there in the great white north, the government censors have a lot of idle time to cause trouble for everybody, or did the 25 year old song just now get released in Canada? Just because civil people don't use the N-word or the Fa-word, doesn't mean that society must be scrubbed of every thing some aggrieved minority finds mildly offensive.
Whatever, at least one radio station in Edmonton is protesting by playing the song, unedited, non-stop for an hour. Here's the video for your own protest of solidarity. Turn up your speakers and see if any of your office mates get upset.
Reminds me that NATO used to (and still does I think) give code names to Soviet aircraft, missiles, etc. All fighters started with "F". The MiG-15 was named the "Fagot", which means a bundle of sticks and can also be spelled "faggot." Think there was any subliminal message there from NATO, or was it too long ago for the other meaning to be used?
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