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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Why stop at he R word? I’ve got a few others I’d like to bring back. Plus, any word is a slur. Soon as one word gets banned, three take its place. The words get their power from the people ban them, not the ####ty people who use them as slurs.
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This is actually the bigger underlying issue: everyone already knows what the hell you're saying anyway.
The word ###### The R-word has gone through so many mutations over the years, and every time someone starts using the new version in a way that's kind of sh-tty, the word or phrase becomes verboten and a new politically correct one takes its place... only to meet the exact same fate a short time later, and again, another word / phrase replaces it... rinse, repeat. And of course you know someone's dad is going to use the previous word having missed the memo that we're discontinuing the old version, and he's going to get in sh-t at the family Christmas party or something.
Isn't anyone else kind of sick of this stupid, pointless exercise?
If someone says something in a sh-tty way (eg: calling someone with a mental disability a ######), then call them on it. And before some moron brings it up, the "N-word" is not a comparable because it was used from the very beginning to refer to black people. It has no other meaning, that was literally the point of its creation, to refer to them specifically.