Really? Show me.
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I brought up the use/mention distinction specifically to counter the accusation that I had USED the word (and for no other reason).
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In any case: you've achieved your end. I'm exhausted by your pettifogging and I've said all I've cared to say.
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because what else am i going to do with my morning, here's austin in 'performative utterances,' noting how the idea that the only features of language are the purely descriptive ones is so easily discredited as to be almost a strawmanpic.twitter.com/DkuPfX3jWS
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to put it in his terms, the idea that 'the real racism' of using slurs occurs only when it is used in the locutionary act, and not at all when it is mentioned, ignores the fact that the whole goddamn motherfucking point of a slur is its perlocutionary effects
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