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No, I don’t deliberately call people who I know have asked not to be called.
The calling list is the list of registered voters in the district. It is generated by the Registrar of Voters and contains the phone numbers given by people when they register to vote. This government provided list is not checked against a ‘no call list’ because calls to these numbers are not subject to that list.
If a voter does not want calls from candidates and political parties/pollsters, the voter does not have to provide a phone number when registering to vote, or can ask the Registrar to remove the phone number.
Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it isn’t offensive. Slaughterhouses are legal, but I wouldn’t want to live next door to one because the smell and noise is offensive.
The history of the Chinese Auction, where the replacement of the word tricky by Chinese is documented and offensive to those of Chinese decent.
My family arrived in the US in the early 1870s and were storekeepers in the south. Those general merchandise stores were known as Jew Stores by the populace. It wasn’t illegal, but is sure was offensive.
If you are told by someone with a Chinese child that the term ‘Chinese Auction’ is offensive, why fight it? It would be far more respectful to say: “I didn’t know that, thank you for educating me.” That doesn’t mean you’ll change your opinion or practice, it does mean you show courtesy and perhaps compassion for a fellow human being.