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What is the most inspirational thing you saw or heard that changed your life? (lemy.lol)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it was these.

"A focused fool can accomplish more than a distracted genius"

"Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter"

These two quotes really helped get my @** in gear.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think they're joking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hope you're right, but I've seen a bunch of this "slavery is for African Americans" rhetoric recently and I'm not sure if it's ignorance or maliciousness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I was absolutely joking, but in hindsight I can see that's not clear.

There are a number of words that are being declared in some quarters to be so offensive they may not even be uttered, like "faggot" which I have been chastised for even uttering in quotation, and informed I must call "the f-slur".

My take on this is it is giving power to these words they would not otherwise have and is deeply regressive. We should follow the example of "queer", which used to be used in highly offensive ways but in recent years has been adopted and claimed by the queer community and has been stripped of much of its power.

I was trying to poke fun at the idiot who is trying to give "slave" new power to offend, but obviously I didn't do it well.