The next time you call someone "toxic" or a "troll", reflect on how casually you did so, with absolute social acceptance, encouragement and impunity. That's what it was like to call someone a faggot or homo (pejoratively) in the 1980s. History repeats.
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Then what should we call those people who are a negative influence on a community?
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We didn't get over "gay bashing". I'm in college and people still do it all the time. Just a few years ago, one fo my best friends killed himself after a group of people he thought were his friends assaulted him and called him homosexual slurs.
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Right. We have made significant progress since the 1980s. Let's just not use hyperbole and nonsense in exploiting a brain hack to achieve an othering outcome, and see what happens?
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