• tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    You can’t use racial slurs or derogatory words, but you don’t actually need to resort to such profanity to communicate a point… and I feel that if you do, then you probably are worth filtering out.

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          3 months ago

          No… I’m giving you my opinion on this whole discussion, which started with someone complaining that “bitch” is censored on lemmy.ml.

          Telling that you are bowing out now though.

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            3 months ago

            Yeah on .World you can use the any insult as long as it’s followed by “Jill Stein” or “Donald Trump”. No criticism of Kamala Harris allowed though.

            Imagine censoring a Genocide and then bragging about “free speech”.

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            3 months ago

            Oh sorry, I thought you were trolling me by literally writing “removed”. I just now followed your fediverse link and can see that you wrote “removed”.

            Yes that word is replaced on the server. I would say it’s a bit overkill too, but hey it’s a derogatory word towards women, so I think there are more general words like “fuck”, “shit”, “dick” and “cunt” that can be swapped in to convey the same point.

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                3 months ago

                inform me then, otherwise I’m just going to propagate whatever specific thing you’re vaguely objecting to

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                  3 months ago

                  The words you’ve suggested are more objectionable than the word you’re objecting to.

                  If you want to claim a position of supremacy and justice in linguistic expression, you should educate yourself on the words you’re choosing to use.

                  I’m not asserting that the word bitch is more objectionable than any other ‘curse’ word.

                  You’re claiming that.

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                    3 months ago

                    The B word at present targets women specifically. The other words can be used extremely generally and even liberally in good humour over the pond.

                    I’m quite surprised you take the opposite position on this, but I’m happy to learn more.