• Voyajer
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    9 months ago

    A slur is any word that is used to insult someone based on their immutable characteristics (race, gender, sexuality, religion, ableness, etc.). There is NO requirement of oppression.

    • r3d0c@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      Extremely shallow analysis, certain words have a much different history than others and theres a lot of bad faith implications going on herea

      Would you say cracker and the nword are on the same level?

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        9 months ago

        Interesting abuse of the relative privation fallacy

        E: oh, it’s a burner account.

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        “Plus power” is not how cooquial definitions work. Speak colloquial if you want go talk to normies