Comment on Can we use offensive language like slurs against race and sex and the disabled? Because I thought it would be fun on c/askhistorians to do a couple questions on where and why the words exist?

PragmaticOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bloogoose@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because they want to use the words.

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  • PragmaticOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well I wasn’t going to call them out on it :/

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    • nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Never go full Tarantino.

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• Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  well last time I mean the N word in reqards to the Holocaust but everyone took it for African Americans. I used the R word and no one new or just assumed another word.

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