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Oh, you're mad that you can't use a slur? That's like, the powertripping? People leave reddit because of chuds like you hombre.
Edit: check his account, its a ragebot or something.
Language is an evolving, organic tool, and attempting to police it usually says more about the person doing the policing than the person speaking. When we start labeling certain verbiage as "correct" or "incorrect," we aren't actually protecting the language; we are just enforcing a personal or social preference.
Communication is about the transmission of ideas. If the message was received, the language did its job. Whether it was delivered with a academic precision or through "crass" slang is irrelevant to its functional success. Demanding that everyone adhere to a specific aesthetic or moral standard of speech is just a subtle way of trying to control how others express their reality. If you make certain words the enemy, you're essentially arguing for a narrow, sterilized version of expression that leaves no room for the raw or the unconventional. It's better to engage with the actual argument being made rather than retreating into the safety of tone policing.
Cool, could you say the n-word for all of us? To prove your "point."
Threatening people with retribution doesn't prove the moral authority of your argument.
you're right but i don't think he was threatening me, i think he's just being difficult because nuance is scary
"Go ahead and act how I disagree with and see what happens to you" is an indirect threat.
And this is coming from someone who does not use slurs, and does not think others should. But trying to ban them is futile; the hate still exists and will be expressed otherwise even if you succeed.
There are SO MANY things that people shouldn't do that it's wrong to stop them from doing.
oh, you right.
as an author, slurs in dialogue are really handy. they're intensely evocative phrases when spoken in anger or hate, and humanizing when spoken in jest. i just really hate it when someone goes on the internet to shoulder the plight of every ethnicity and creed and shouts on their assumed behalf, "no one should use mean words ever"
I think it's especially harmful; it's tantamount to pretending things don't happen. You need to show people being terrible in fiction for it to be a full portrayal of the human condition. It's part of what we were, it's part of what we are, and if we have any hope of making it not part of what we will be that's not going to come about by insisting we don't talk about it.
It is fun and easy to feel right by conflating the idea of expressive freedom with the usage of a specific racial slur laden with a unique history of systemic violence and dehumanization, hell yeah.
but louis ck thinks you're being a faggot
You said that the original commenter should be able to say slurs; say a slur.
Fuckin self-righteous chud nonsense, go suck yourself off somewhere else.
It's not a slur. You are overly sensitive. You are the problem
Bigoted man believes others are sensitive because he can't decide what is and is not a slur for everyone else. Beautiful.
Any word that expresses a negative connotation about a group becomes a slur over time. And then a new word is chosen, which becomes a slur eventually as well. I think trying to make ideas impossible to say by banning the words used to say them is futile.
Okay, so tell me the slurs you're willing to say since you believe there ought to be no consequence to doing so.
You have no values dude, you're just performing for yourself.
I don't say slurs. It's not nice.
That doesn't mean I think trying to force others to behave like I do is moral or productive. (Or nice. A bit coercive.)
This should not be hard to understand. I also don't drink, and would not ban booze.
Have you considered for once in your life that you aren't qualified to make that judgement? As much as dorkass fake thinkers like you pretend to be objective in service of some other fake values (I wonder why you used the word productive as synonymous with "good" or "helpful" HMMMMMM), you never actually stop to think about what you say.
Maybe if a slur does not effect you, you don't get to have a say in whether it is alright to say. The only consequence this fascist got was people online making fun of him. If you think that is a consequence equal to dehumanization, maybe you should just count your lucky stars for the simple life you've been afforded and shut the fuck up about things you don't know about.
Won't even read your response, it's clear that you're very self-satisfied along with being a bigot.
Did you just assume my gender identity?
Deduced it. Don't be sensitive.
I wish Tumblr was still around so you could go back to it
Tumblr and Vine need to come back, so all the imbeciles can fuck back off to the containment sites.