Your profile contains the word "rape". That too could trigger some painful emotions in others—more so than "nigger", I'd wager.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @Lenoxus and
"Rape culture" isn't a slur, it's a problem that exists that has been put into words. Slurs are nothing but destructive. You're trying to reclaim a word that isn't yours because it makes you feel powerful to be entitled.
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Replying to @ShieldingC @Lenoxus and
Your argument was that printing the word "nigger" will trigger unpleasant emotions. My counterpoint was the same is true of "rape".
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @ShieldingC and
If the consideration you yourself raised is salient, then both stand condemned; doesn't matter if one is a "slur" or not.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @ShieldingC and
And—this is admittedly a side point—but it's not at all obvious to me that "rape culture" isn't a slur. It's certainly often used as one.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @ShieldingC and
That is, it's often used as a slur against our society, which is manifestly NOT a rape culture. (But this is, as I say, by the by)
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @Lenoxus and
So you don't know what "slur" or "rape culture" mean. Good luck with life.
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Replying to @ShieldingC @Lenoxus and
I'll agree I'm equivocating on the meaning of "slur" here: I'm actually trading on its PRIMARY meaning ("damaging insinuation").
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @ShieldingC and
Fair point, though, that this meaning probably isn't quite the one people have in mind to refer to racial epithets.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @ShieldingC and
THAT meaning, it seems to me, is deliberately unclear. Although, as I said, this is all a side issue.
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