• qyron
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    41 year ago

    I understand your reasoning but I can’t subacribe it.

    A word is a word. A word becomes an insult if it is used against someone, with that specific intent.

    I specifically used the quotation marks because I wanted to convey the understanding that I was putting the words out with no connection to anything.

    Writing on a social media outlet feels more and more like walking through a trap field. Cryptic acronyms, forbidden and self censored words and redacted sentences.

    This is the worst kind of censorship I can think of. It blocks the person and others from fully expressing ideas and thoughts and preassigns a default judgement towards who is trying to convey an argument.

    The best way to void a word - especially if an insult - is to ignore it. Don’t use it, ignore it in others speech, attack the use of it as an insult.

    Self censoring is not a good thing.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Honestly I wanted to be edgy but been trained that I’ll get auto moderated if I just type it out.

      Also people really do be thinking you are racist if you type out a word (or recite a song lyric) from a different point of view.

      In other words, it’s a no win scenario.