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  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldIs "retard" a slur?
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    2 months ago

    All slurs should be “acceptable”. Words only have the power attributed to them by humans. (Other) humans can choose to wield that power, to change it, or to leave it be. But policing language is never the answer; people will always find ways around it anyway, and 1984 warned us of the results of having language policed to an extensive degree.

    I’m sure some cunt will take issue with this stance, so to them I say in advance: suck my goddamn dick from balls to shaft and then go die in a ditch, bitch.




  • Timing is everything. I once had “most upvoted post of the day” and like 20K karma from a stupid joke that was a reply to the first top-level comment on a default sub. The only reason that happened was because it got into “rising” exactly as the US users started waking up and opening the site.

    I could’ve posted the exact same comment on any other post in that thread or even the same one but at a different time, and no one would’ve seen it.