Use of slurs

MUUGEN

呪のろいの王
#26
I realize that this isn't an "American" forum and doesn't necessarily default on sensibilities just because English is the common language. However, I'm addressing rampant use of the R-word. As a black man and advocate for persons with disabilities, have to say there's a clear double standard between R and N. It's unwelcoming, regressive, immature, and strictly pejorative. It's tone deaf to demean the neurodivergent on a manga forum, and unbelievable in the case of a forum where at least one prominent member had committed suicide due to online bullying.

I've seen gag edits like "Super" Sommers so it seems very obvious to use this or another easy solution.
 
#29
I do agree on this but at the same time I think this is just the nature of language and how it progresses over time. Keep in mind, "idiot" "moron" and "imbecile" all have similar origins to ret**d, but have been repurposed into essentially just meaning "stupid/dumbass". That being said, I still try not to say it too much, because unlike the other words I've mentioned, people seem far more resistant to changing the meaning of it. So I'll abide by their rules, just like I do my best not to say the b word since I'm not a woman.
 
#35
I realize that this isn't an "American" forum and doesn't necessarily default on sensibilities just because English is the common language. However, I'm addressing rampant use of the R-word. As a black man and advocate for persons with disabilities, have to say there's a clear double standard between R and N. It's unwelcoming, regressive, immature, and strictly pejorative. It's tone deaf to demean the neurodivergent on a manga forum, and unbelievable in the case of a forum where at least one prominent member had committed suicide due to online bullying.

I've seen gag edits like "Super" Sommers so it seems very obvious to use this or another easy solution.
Who cares? Cry elsewhere. Im not changing my vernacular because some strange black man on the internet wants to cry
 
#36
I don't see any excuse personally. If someone wants to use hateful terms despite being reduced to asterisks, they still can. Most likely, they'll move onto some other nasty terms. But at least there's a clear and logical effort in that case.
Notice how you pretend to have elegant and elevated standards as you preach to the peons below from your piety built soap box?

Perhaps learn that there are still cannibals, child marriages, and chain gang rape all over the world.

Youre crying about words used by those who are empirically the most empathetic and kind people in the history of humankind.

Find another hill to die on. Retard
 
#37
Notice how you pretend to have elegant and elevated standards as you preach to the peons below from your piety built soap box?

Perhaps learn that there are still cannibals, child marriages, and chain gang rape all over the world.

Youre crying about words used by those who are empirically the most empathetic and kind people in the history of humankind.

Find another hill to die on. Retard
Sorry to hear about what happened to your sister, but you can still grow as a person.
 
#39
I do agree on this but at the same time I think this is just the nature of language and how it progresses over time. Keep in mind, "idiot" "moron" and "imbecile" all have similar origins to ret**d, but have been repurposed into essentially just meaning "stupid/dumbass".
Start using the N word. When someone calls you out, just say the word has evolved into a term of endearment.
 
#40
Sorry to hear about what happened to your sister, but you can still grow as a person.
I did. I made sense of the world instead of leaning towards vague platitudes of morality (which is what allowed very predictable harm to occur towards my sister) when in reality its my ancestors who created the current sense of justice and morality in the west. Youre weaponizing my heritage (current sense of ethics) against me. The heir of said ethical system.

Dont talk about my sister. Just know youre borrowing an ethical system ontologically produced and maintained solely by us. Stealing it and wearing it as a costume whilst allowing my sister to become a victim.

You have no right. These harms are predictable and elevated with certain groups. Acknowledging this is not morally wrong.
 
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