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A better question is why do you feel the need to die on the hill of using slurs?
Because swearing is a natural part of the human experience and most level headed people donβt feel the need to suppress human expression.
Swearing serves an important biological need to express emotion and communicate. Psychologically, we swear to express strong emotions and when people swear, they are inherently viewed as more trustworthy or honest. Swearing helps people bond.
They're not talking about swearing. Call someone a fucking shit-eating worm is fine. But on the other hand are words used to insult marginalized groups (women, homosexuals, the mentally disabled, etc.). B/*itch, wh/*ore, c/*nt; c/*cksucker, f/*g; r/*tard, a/*tist, etc.
These are the words being blocked. Not swears, slurs. You can say fuck, shit, damn, and hell all you want.
For what it's worth, I tend to fall on the side of a little bit being fine. I don't use those words (except the slurs against w/*men), but if there's one thing I fucking hate, it's Scolds. If Felix Biederman wants to call people r/*tards and c/*cksuckers, I think he should be allowed to, and I'm not going to try to cancel him for it.
Fuck that shit, i'll swear all the god-damned hell I want that doesn't excuse the use of slurs.
Wow, jumping into racism.
Yes I am racist against white people, and the fact that you aren't tells me everything I need to know about what you stand for.
EDIT: All the baby neo-nazis really showing up for this one. I'm going to need a bigger block list to fit all these scratched liberals
So you're a racist. Thanks. Your opinion is now worthless.
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Wow. Standing for not being a piece of shit racist... must be terrible being a normal person.
Standing for a future where people are judged by the value of their character rather then by the color of their skin?
Every time a white-winger misuses his quote, MLK spins in his grave just that little bit faster.
And every time a person says that white people (as a group) are bad he spins a little faster.
Do you not see your hypocrisy? How is racism of any type good?
Man MLK's entire political career was being an anti-white racist, shut the fuck up cracker. Just because you got the whitewashed version of him which wiped away all the stuff he actually stood for just so that liberals could pat themselves on the back that they weren't a part of it.
EDIT: He even has a famous speech about "The white moderate" how much more obvious does he have to be??
And how do you know I'm white?
Because you're doing the same shit white supremacists do. You've proven by your actions that you align yourself with them.
Downvote me all you want, it doesn't change the fact that's what you're doing.
Please tell me how calling out racism is white supremacy...
I bet you can't.
He also seemed to think not all white people were bad
Go back to whatever hateful little spot you are from and realise you will never get out of it by hating people for things they haven't done.
Anti white racism is a literal neo-nazi talking point that works because white means white supremacist.
I'll say this. Your bullshit is consistent, though wrong.
You keep using racial slurs against me, yet I haven't responded in kind. I think we know who the bigot in this situation is. And it the one throwing out the accusations of white supremacy and littering their speech with hateful little slurs thinking they have a point.
You don't have a point and I'm not going to continue to engage with you. Go yell into the void
I'll leave you with this: Using hate to justify hate is how those white supremacy idiots want you to act. They want you at the throats of white people so they can justify their hate. Congratulations you fell for their shit.
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind"
Moral consistency is the only way to approach moral truth. If your morality leads you to villainy, you need to examine why that's the case.
I see you have a misunderstanding there about the "white moderates" thing.
At the time white people literally held all the power (damn near anyways), so someone who was a "white moderate" was someone who was in the group of power and didn't advocate for positive change for the rights of others.
It was less a "white moderate" thing and more a "person in group of power who was moderate" thing
Those who advocated (and those who do so currently) for the positive change in terms of civil rights were (and are) considered radicals.
You even see this kind of stuff now with the "enlightened centrist" people. The people who think that we should compromise with those trying to take rights away.
I'm not misunderstanding anything. MLK's entire gig was eroding the chokehold whiteness had over society. He was being anti white racist.
I think thereβs some miscommunication here. Youβre the only person in this thread that brought up slurs. Everyone else is talking about swear words which is a different thing. I donβt think anyone here is saying slurs arenβt bad. What people are saying is it should be ok to use swear words, which you just demonstrated with your comment.
I'm not confused, misogo is so rampant that people don't even consider them to be slurs, kind of like what used to happen to ableist slurs.
I'm willing to bet a good amount of people in this comment section used to use ableist slurs before they were told not to, because they treat slurs as "words I'm not allowed to say" rather than genuinely not wanting to hurt the groups that said slurs are targeting.
"Bitch" is not a slur. It is a swear. Swears are fine, slurs are not. They are not equivelant, and shouldn't be treated as such.
I hate ml mods as much as the next guy, but also I would consider "bitch" to be kinda misogynistic in certain context.
The same can be said of any gendered term. That's honestly a comment on the context more than the word.
If you say the word bitch is as offensive as the f slur, t slur or n word, then you're saying those slurs are as harmless as the word bitch. If you believe that, I am offended by you. Do not put them in the same group.
see the problem I have here is by banning a word that is used as a slur maybe once every 1000 times you remove the 999 times it was not used as a slur, thereby making the situation worse rather than better. Banning words does fuck all to promote a healthier culture, all it does is make the vultures migrate to the next word they load up with negative connotations
because fuck you? /s
Holy fucking hell. What kind of pearl clutching Victorian era bullshit is that?
Why do you feel the need to bitch about it?
Rape culture.
Because someone said bitch and doesn't follow your orders?
Lol.
But you're also probably trolling
Imagine being so far right that you think basic decency is "trolling"
Garbage human.
No.
But thank you for establishing the fact you lack the cognitive capacity to engage this thread in good faith.
Whatever, rapist.
Oooh, harder daddy