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It has nothing to do with empathy. This is upper-class college white girl shit, where people get offended on behalf of a class they don't belong to and which the people who they are offended on behalf of don't really give a shit.
You pretend to be offended so you can signal to others that you are virtuous.
If everyone had to be considerate of every persons views, nobody would write anything. Nobody would be allowed to have opinions.
The world isn't all sunshine and flowers, buttercup. I'll continue to be imperfect, and use the words to describe what I want. If you want to get your blood pressure up, and get huffy about it, that's your prerogative.
Who are you quoting?
I could ask you the same question about the word "retard".
You've used the slur countless times in this thread.
But no one in this thread has every said every man on the planet is toxic. Where did that strawman come from? Who are you quoting?
It is a slur. That is a fact, you cannot just say "nuh-uh" to facts.
You do not get to decide to override facts. You can't decide that a slur isn't a slur any more than you can decide the sky is red.
You cannot decide that up is down. You cannot decide that black is white. You cannot decide that cats are dogs.
Gee, that's funny. I could say the same exact thing about you for getting so upset over a sad little thing like someone using the word "retard", y'know.
Oh, how the turn tables. 😉
I get it. Generally people don't want to offend someone without due cause. And so we traipse around each other's idiosyncrasies. For the most part that is fine.
The problem comes from making a policy of it. People will say what they will say. Does that cause reputational harm if they say certain words? Sure. No one can stop you from changing how you feel about someone based upon their actions. But you can't stop them from saying it.
Let's go straight to the source. Let's talk about the N word. If you see someone in public use that word perjoratively - then you will probably consider them to be a bad person. You may even tell other people "That person said the N word and they are bad because of it." And that would be perfectly fine.
But what you can't do is tell them not to say it. Because it is their freedom to be a piece of shit and to say awful things and to demean and hurt others with their words. So if Joe Rogan wants to say stupid shit, let him. We all know he's an idiot.
Oh yeah... idiot used to have a clinical meaning too, you know. But I guess according to you I can't say that either.