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[–] 16 points 13 hours ago* (3 children)

"Anything I dont like is woke." Is now just "Anything I dont like is DEI."

Its a big part of why I disagree with the backlash against saying retarded. People who want to be hateful just move the goalposts and make the acceptable term a slur. Furthermore anyone who calls a mentally disabled person names is a "CUNT" not "a person of dubious personal character"

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    ...so it should be fine to say slurs because otherwise new words become slurs but also using slurs makes you a bad person so you shouldn't do it?

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  • [–] 5 points 12 hours ago

    Not fine but the message is more important than the words.

    Calling someone who says hateful shit with the right words a retard is not worse than the hateful bastard. Idiot and Moron both have old roots in discriptions of people who were probably mentally handicapped.

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