Shall we play a game?

[boston bean]

6. can I give one that I liked, that was a great response and deserved kudos!

This quite eloquently summarizes what one will find on DU this week.

NuclearDem (8,292 posts)

278. No, I perfectly get that there's a horde of big pearl clutching babies

who when confronted with the fact that words have a real power to hurt and see even the mildest of suggestions from any group that's been a target of those words about how to alleviate it shit themselves and throw a big fucking infantile tantrum until the grownups give them their toy back.

The same spoiled brats who after their morning jerkoff to 1984 take to the internet to scream down feminists and minority groups for daring to speak about rape culture, white privilege, or male privilege because it hurts their precious fee-fees, and receive pathetic congratulatory pats on the back from the rest of the brogressives and brocialists for a job well done standing up for the plight of the self-entitled white man made uncomfortable.

Suggesting the slightest amount of self-censorship (OOGA BOOGA BOOGA) isn't the crime of the fucking century. In fact, outside of the discussion of the words themselves, I've happily struck n****r, s***k, w*****k, and a whole shit-stained laundry list of words from my lexicon. And yet, through some miracle of the English language, I'm still able to express complex ideas and make a point! I can even still use salty language! Also, shockingly, I don't even fucking miss calling a woman a c**t or telling other men to stop being a p***y. Imagine that!

As far as the "duh, well if you don't want to be offended, don't read it!" totally unironic attempt at censorship masquerading as advice, if someone actually thinks simply avoiding the ground zero of hurtful words in any way alleviates the problem...well, let me take your footprints because you were apparently born yesterday. All it takes is for one fucking moron to look at what's supposed to be a progressive community, see this absolute garbage heap of hate and--fucking ta da!--instant validation. If progressives, who are supposed to be the right ones are giving these words a pass, then I guess I can use them after all!

And that asshole is not going to be as eloquent as TRP.

So, cry, whine, and throw your little fits about creeping censorship, but frankly, if words like f*g, f****t, or f***y b*y had been eradicated from the English language by a cultural understanding that words, much the same way as guns, have the very real power to hurt and both should be used with the utmost responsibility and care, then maybe my friend's parents wouldn't have had to find him dangling from a fucking rope in his closet.

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