"Republicunt": why use terms like this?

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Of course you don't have a problem with it. You admit those words are insulting so that only confirms that you lack empathy, compassion and the common sense to understand that out of over hundreds of thousands of words in the English language, you choose those as descriptors. How thoughtful and considerate of you. You are also lumping words that are acceptable in with words that aren't. 


Oh sweetheart, the internet has nothing to do with the use of those words. Someone could use those words in a verbal, face to face conversation and they would still be ignorant of the fact that those words do indeed cause harm. And they would still use them in the same derogatory manner as if they were used, let's say, here, in a forum. 


So you don't have a problem with someone using those words in general and their target audience should just get the hell over it, but if they use them more than once per day, then you have a problem with it?

I don't have a moral issue with someone calling people cunts all day long, but like was said before, I do consider it childish, in the sense that it reminds me of when kids first learn about swear words and spam them way too much. It's just overkill to hear Republicans being called cunts every single day pretty much, multiple times a day sometimes. Is it childish for me to ever use the insults gay, fag, cunt, or retard? Maybe it is, but if someone calls a white supremacist a retard, then that's who they're insulting and not anyone else. They're insulting the person they're insulting. Not mentally disabled people. If anyone else takes offense when none is intended, that's on them as far as I'm concerned. I think I made the right decision to not completely give up insults like gay and retard, because time has shown that once you start going down that path, the ones complaining about words are never satisfied. Now look at the mess we find ourselves in. Every other word is a microagression these days and it's only going to get worse. I respect you and what you do, and you're entitled to feel however you feel when you see or hear those words, but when it comes down to it, I can't control how other people feel. I don't think I lack empathy. I just don't think the answer is self censorship, because like I said, once you go down that path... and I'm not talking slippery slope either, because we're already there. We're living in the Onion.

I sort of get what you are saying here about a slippery slope - the same goes for a lot of politically correct things these days, and it can get inhibiting. Personally, though, if I am aware that a word bothers someone I won't use it around them, just because I don't think it's worth the fight. What skin is it off my back? Sort of the same principle of this thread: if it will offend someone and therefore make it harder for me to achieve something with them, and there is zero benefit, why say it?

At the very least, get creative, especially with resources like this at your fingertips! http://www.nk-news.net/extras/insult_generator.php