along with the strong censoring that has occurred on reddit throughout the years, they have now removed r/all from the app and while using a desktop/laptop browser. instead of being able to stumble upon new subreddits you never knew existed, it wants to curate what you’re allowed to see
Language is an evolving, organic tool, and attempting to police it usually says more about the person doing the policing than the person speaking. When we start labeling certain verbiage as “correct” or “incorrect,” we aren’t actually protecting the language; we are just enforcing a personal or social preference.
Communication is about the transmission of ideas. If the message was received, the language did its job. Whether it was delivered with a academic precision or through “crass” slang is irrelevant to its functional success. Demanding that everyone adhere to a specific aesthetic or moral standard of speech is just a subtle way of trying to control how others express their reality. If you make certain words the enemy, you’re essentially arguing for a narrow, sterilized version of expression that leaves no room for the raw or the unconventional. It’s better to engage with the actual argument being made rather than retreating into the safety of tone policing.
Cool, could you say the n-word for all of us? To prove your “point.”
Threatening people with retribution doesn’t prove the moral authority of your argument.
you’re right but i don’t think he was threatening me, i think he’s just being difficult because nuance is scary
“Go ahead and act how I disagree with and see what happens to you” is an indirect threat.
And this is coming from someone who does not use slurs, and does not think others should. But trying to ban them is futile; the hate still exists and will be expressed otherwise even if you succeed.
There are SO MANY things that people shouldn’t do that it’s wrong to stop them from doing.
oh, you right.
as an author, slurs in dialogue are really handy. they’re intensely evocative phrases when spoken in anger or hate, and humanizing when spoken in jest. i just really hate it when someone goes on the internet to shoulder the plight of every ethnicity and creed and shouts on their assumed behalf, “no one should use mean words ever”
I think it’s especially harmful; it’s tantamount to pretending things don’t happen. You need to show people being terrible in fiction for it to be a full portrayal of the human condition. It’s part of what we were, it’s part of what we are, and if we have any hope of making it not part of what we will be that’s not going to come about by insisting we don’t talk about it.
It is fun and easy to feel right by conflating the idea of expressive freedom with the usage of a specific racial slur laden with a unique history of systemic violence and dehumanization, hell yeah.
but louis ck thinks you’re being a faggot
You said that the original commenter should be able to say slurs; say a slur.
Fuckin self-righteous chud nonsense, go suck yourself off somewhere else.