• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    Why have you censored their name but not their Twitter handle. I mean I really don’t care but if I wanted to I could find this post.

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    I once sent a girl a selfie, she then blocked me.

    The funny part of the story is when I told my boss, he laughed way too seriously… so much so that I started to find it funny.

          • Bibi@discuss.tchncs.de
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            24 hours ago

            Heard this gotcha thousands of times. I do not personally use these words and haven’t for many years. Believe it or not they’re unnecessary. Furthermore, not all words have equal strength. The R slur is notoriously more extreme and just promotes more hatred. Not to mention since it is so powerful it is well known to be a trigger word for people suffering from PTSD. Censoring the word “fuck” is entirely different. This is about basic kindness and learning to be compassionate. Reflect on your privilege for not having to deal with everytime you see a certain slur on the internet that it reminds you of a terrible event in your life. Everyone is at different stages of their life and sometimes doing the best they can everyday to get to a point where a word doesn’t have the same power of them as it used to. And even then, for some, it never fully can deminish to be how unimpressive the word is to you.

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          “Better place” is debatable. Speaking while offending no one is an impossible equation to solve. Not to mention, some edginess makes the world less boring. There’s a balance to keep and we’ve crossed it.

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        No no, Carotte has a point. We should keep censoring the r-word until they stop being such fucking retards in r*ssia.

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        1 day ago

        Not that often you see both sides of being overly sensitive in two comments but here we are.

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        What is wrong with you? This isn’t censorship, but words changing meaning and acceptance due to being used to hurt people.

        You’re also not allowed to say the n word without people getting mad. That’s fine.

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          It’s not like people use retard towards mentally disabled people, they use it towards imbeciles like crypto bros and Trump supporters.

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            That’s probably your age/peer group. Retarded still has a medical connection that is alive enough to be triggering to some.

            Idiot, for example, has long lost this and is much safer. People using medical language for retarded people as an insult has long been a thing and is intently phobic.

            • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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              It is not been a medically used term for about a generation so yeah it is related to your peer group but you would have to be over 50 to still consider it and it’s original medical context.

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                I have heard it used in the 00s and 10s. In the sense of it being a term for the disabled. And that that’s ok/new speak isn’t inherently better. It is new.

                Just because it isn’t in dsm doesn’t mean people don’t use it.