[split] PSA: Hate Speech (discussion of video etc)

[pocaracas]

Just to make it clear for someone who asked this earlier... was it boru?

That's like saying that no one is confused about the provocative use of miniskirt's possibility of resulting in rape. (not sure about the grammatical correctness here, but I hope the point gets through)
It's not senseless rape... it's provoked, clearly!    

Right.  Consider the eerie similarities between miniskirts and the n-word:

-Miniskirt wearers were taken from their homes and sold into slavery.

-Miniskirt wearers were treated no better than farm animals for 400 years.

-Since brute force and lynchings are no longer acceptable, the miniskirt vote is repressed by gerrymandering and voter ID laws targeting people in miniskirt-heavy districts

-The term 'miniskirter' has such vile connotations that it is (almost) universally shunned as being unusually derogatory, defamatory and dehumanizing.

-The term 'miniskirter' (sorry to keep using the word without censoring) has bigots, racists and longskirters constructing long, convoluted, insane arguments as to why they should be allowed to use it.

-Secret and not-so-secret societies exist for the express purpose of denying civil rights to people in miniskirts.

-Miniskirt wearers are disproportionately imprisoned and given harsher sentences than longskirters.

Yeah.  They're the same.

Boru

Clearly the shoe fits.

Just look at all the things you had to pull out to justify a visceral violent reaction to hearing a word.
As if any of those make it ok to use violence upon hearing a word.
As if it's the utterer of the word that is guilty and responsible for getting beat up when those who hear the word become violent.
Victim blaming is the name of that.

Wearers of miniskirts, aka women, were chattel for millennia, were less than human for millennia, were sold by their parents for millennia, were denied civil rights for millennia. So yeah, they're comparable.
Wearers of miniskirts have, however had some one hundred years to forget...
The others, however, are being conditioned to consider that word as worthy of a violent response... And society around them is accepting such a reaction as "natural".

I say you are endorsing violence through victim blaming, so shame on you!

I'm not saying it's ok to say the word, given the shitty past it represents and the far from ideal present. But I'm saying that accepting violence as a response to hearing the word is not the best attitude that society can take on its way to doing away with the racist intent with which it is often (but not always) used.