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PSA: Hate Speech
#81
RE: PSA: Slurs
(April 23, 2019 at 11:31 am)Losty Wrote:
(April 23, 2019 at 11:30 am)Tiberius Wrote: @Losty they do actually. Not common but you can still find them.

Seems like they could come up with a better name

There's not really a reason to because it doesn't have the same usage over there. There are other disparaging words for gay men for Brits, f*ggot is not one of them.
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#82
RE: PSA: Slurs
(April 23, 2019 at 11:46 am)Shell B Wrote:
(April 23, 2019 at 11:31 am)Losty Wrote: Seems like they could come up with a better name

There's not really a reason to because it doesn't have the same usage over there. There are other disparaging words for gay men for Brits, f*ggot is not one of them.

I’ve heard the word “poof”. Is that considered offensive? I find it really cute but I don’t know if it’s actually some horrible word for gay people.
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
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#83
RE: PSA: Slurs
(April 23, 2019 at 11:31 am)Losty Wrote: Seems like they could come up with a better name

Who - the people who came up with such dishes as "spotted dick", "cock-a-leekie" and "toad in the hole"?  Hehe
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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#84
RE: PSA: Slurs
It's not really horrible, but it's not flattering, either.
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#85
RE: PSA: Slurs
“p*of” and “p*ofter” are both homophobic slurs in the UK. I don’t think they hold the same weight as “f*ggot” does in the US but I’m not sure.
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#86
RE: PSA: Slurs
I know how to solve the mystery. Ask a British gay man how he feels about it.
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#87
RE: PSA: Slurs
(April 23, 2019 at 11:53 am)Tiberius Wrote: “p*of” and “p*ofter” are both homophobic slurs in the UK. I don’t think they hold the same weight as “f*ggot” does in the US but I’m not sure.

Well damn, that’s what we call our bath scrubby thingies in my family. Good to know though. Now I know not to use it.
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
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#88
RE: PSA: Slurs
I edited that out because I’m not sure I’m remembering correctly
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
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#89
RE: PSA: Slurs
I’d suggest that if it matches hate speech, I see no reason why an outrageous use of “poof” as a bad faith replacement for “faggot” would be permitted. The usual “if it walks like a duck, swears like a duck...” algorithm with the usual warning/redemption loop that we have with every other rule.

For example, if you’re discussing taking a bath and the verbiage is to call a loofah a poof, but we’re still talking about taking a bath, it’s probably okay.

Common sense still applies. That said, given that language is mutable and has history to it, some terms have self-limited their legitimate application. For example, the “n word”, as it’s put, has precious few non-racially charged uses. But even then, it has some. Dealing with the bad faith language lawyering on all the edge cases for that particular word is exhausting, so a general “don’t use it” is used as a guiding light.

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#90
RE: PSA: Slurs
(April 22, 2019 at 11:49 pm)Losty Wrote: A personal thank you from me to the assholes who made this necessary.

i'm so sheltered half the slurs mentioned I'd never heard of before.



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

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