• Soggy@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    …so it should be fine to say slurs because otherwise new words become slurs but also using slurs makes you a bad person so you shouldn’t do it?

    • Delphia@lemmy.world
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      31 minutes ago

      Not fine but the message is more important than the words.

      Calling someone who says hateful shit with the right words a retard is not worse than the hateful bastard. Idiot and Moron both have old roots in discriptions of people who were probably mentally handicapped.