It should only get more free as time goes on as well. While we are small sometimes I feel the need to remove content from subs I mod so they aren't overwhelmingly racist. With more content and more users upvotes and downvotes should naturally moderate content to some extent.
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Submitted 2 years ago by sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net to freeforum@wolfballs.com
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masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
PureBloodMasculine@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Its just words
squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
honestly I think racial slurs should be made inoffensive, there's no reason why people should take offense to them like they do - it almost reinforces the idea that they belief certain ethnic groups are inferior, even while they angrily protest that they aren't - at least that seemed to me to be the attitude of the old left that didn't care if someone said an ethnic slur because they didn't believe it meant what the speaker of it intended
I saw a black guy for example going around giving people "n word passes", or the freedom to speak a racial slur against blacks, honestly I think this is one of the most effective ways to get rid of the importance attached to such language
to me blasphemy is the real horror of speech and I have the equivalent reaction to it that leftists do with slurs (or as least I do mentally), racial slurs have become the substitute for blasphemy for the godless today
PureBloodMasculine@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
You articulate well. I only say it to piss people off and because they say I can't. It's mostly because it's one sided and I have a rebellious nature. No one gives a shit about white racial slurs. Then again, white people aren't that fragile.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
I think that makes sense. The more you make a word verboten, the more power you give it. Making a word so powerful it ends lives and careers for saying it or gets the state involved makes that word all-powerful, which to me just empowers those who say the word and mean it.
All the more reason why censorship is counter-productive.