• qyron@sopuli.xyz
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      I believe they referring to “kike”, a slur for jewish people.

      With the degree of self censoring and the love acronyms and shortening words, it’s becoming a challenge to follow written text.

      Is the fword “faggot”?

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        Thank you, I was also confused by what the fuck the “K-word” could be. I think we could asterisk out a letter, so meaning is still conveyed, and the impact of the word might still be felt and understood.

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          I understand your reasoning but I can’t subacribe it.

          A word is a word. A word becomes an insult if it is used against someone, with that specific intent.

          I specifically used the quotation marks because I wanted to convey the understanding that I was putting the words out with no connection to anything.

          Writing on a social media outlet feels more and more like walking through a trap field. Cryptic acronyms, forbidden and self censored words and redacted sentences.

          This is the worst kind of censorship I can think of. It blocks the person and others from fully expressing ideas and thoughts and preassigns a default judgement towards who is trying to convey an argument.

          The best way to void a word - especially if an insult - is to ignore it. Don’t use it, ignore it in others speech, attack the use of it as an insult.

          Self censoring is not a good thing.

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            Honestly I wanted to be edgy but been trained that I’ll get auto moderated if I just type it out.

            Also people really do be thinking you are racist if you type out a word (or recite a song lyric) from a different point of view.

            In other words, it’s a no win scenario.