I'm not.
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Really? Show me.
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I'm quoting two slur words; I am not using either. Here's a primer if you really don't understand:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction …
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If you really want to get academic about this Henry you should either read John Austin's How to Do Things With Words or just shut up about this topic Probably both honestly
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
You seem to generally have trouble with the idea that words mean more than they literally say and that the choice to make a statement at all and the means one chooses to make it reveal more about the speaker than the formal information-value of the statement
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
Hence the fact that if, say, I were to stand in front of a woman and shout "I HAVE A PENIS" I would be sexually harassing her, even though my statement would not only be a true statement but one that conveys no new information beyond what most people already assumed to be true
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
But, of course, the extremely foundational concept of what words are and what language does - that to utter a word is to involuntarily trigger associated thoughts and emotions in another person's brain, and that a speaker is held responsible for doing so - is beyond you
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Hence the sheer absurdity of you trying to argue shit to me like saying a caricature of a Chinese court eunuch in a Flash Gordon serial isn't really racist because "In the story he's supposed to be an alien"
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