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lemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read" (lemmy.cafe)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

nobody is going to arrest you for using the word, and many people will celebrate you using it. The problem is those people are mostly assholes. The word you should be thinking about is "audience".