• @samus12345
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      Because it’s a hateful slur unless you’re talking about a bundle of sticks.

      • @aidan
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        It’s in a meme. Reading it doesn’t harm you. Anymore than reading the other stuff in the meme does, or even just knowing it’s written

        • @samus12345
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          Censoring it doesn’t harm you, either. It’s a word that’s only purpose is to spread hate. Nothing of value is lost.

          • @aidan
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            It does, because I call my bf a removed teasingly. And a lot of my gay friends do the same.

            • @samus12345
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              21 year ago

              You’re welcome to say whatever you want to your family and friends. This is a public forum.

                • @keefshape
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                  So… you have been asked to not spread hate, and you ask why?

                  • @aidan
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                    A word is not hate.

          • @samus12345
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            01 year ago

            Derived from the same word, but an abbreviation of it.

              • credit crazy
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                removed is the word that people are getting sensored for I honestly didn’t even know that was a slur I just thought it was just a insult like fucker or bitch classy no but you haven’t noticed people tend to insult and get into fights with people like you know someone is sheltered if they are surprised that people fight online

        • @UnculturedSwine
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          You obviously haven’t had it used against you as a call to violence have you?

            • @UnculturedSwine
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              I would rather people don’t use it at all if you don’t mind and I gladly censor myself when it comes to other slurs. I can’t convey the mental anguish and self hatred that I’ve suffered all because of an immutable characteristic of my sexuality. You can treat it lightly because you haven’t gone through that suffering. It’s one thing for someone to make fun of you for kicks. It’s quite another for entire groups of people to hate you because of what you are.

    • @[email protected]
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      Because it breaks Rule 1

      Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

        • @[email protected]
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          A little bit of cultural linguistics going on really. Even though the texts are also calling OOP gay and queer, and doing so with the same amount of vitriol as with the f-slur, they aren’t recognized as emotionally charged in the same way. All the other cursing is not hate speech per se as it’s not directly targeting any immutable characteristics.

        • @[email protected]
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          -21 year ago

          I’m not happy with any of the depicted harassment in the image (fake or not), it just not that funny. If you want to see what happens if you have a descenting opinion though, you can see my massively downvoted post below.

          • @bitwaba
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            you can see my massively downvoted post

            Is it doubling in size?

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          Then it breaks Rule 5:

          No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

          • @[email protected]
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            That’s ridiculous, quoting harassment is in no way itself harassment. That would undo just about every awareness campaign ever.

            • @[email protected]
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              Depends on the reason for the quote. Awareness campaigns quote them as examples of what not to do. There is a clear intention to tell the audience “Watch out for this, avoid it, this is wrong.”

              The punchline in this example is an encouragement to harass people because it’s funny.

        • kase
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          I’m curious, what exactly does this mean? Wdym by hate speech, and are you saying it doesn’t exist?