Next step in total janny death.
Now the mod overlords will be robutts.
Next step in total janny death.
Now the mod overlords will be robutts.
tech/science swag.
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great, now scanning and analysis of our text is just the norm now.
Aevann got it right. Blind Search-and-Replace and if a reader doesn't want it, they can disable.
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It's dumb because the language will just keep evolving and it'll mean the same thing.
Like how zoomzooms use "regarded" to mean "r-slurred" - the insult is still there, everybody knows they mean r-slurred, but it doesn't get caught by a filter.
All this could possibly do is speed up the turnaround time.
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It's funny because r-slur used to be the proper inoffensive term for the mentally handicapped and each subsequent term used to describe such people also eventually gets deemed to be offensive. Neurodivergent is 100% gonna be offensive in a couple years.
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This already happened on reddit or the orange site not long ago actually. Wish I had a link.
Commissar jannies think they can just re-engineer people through language but pejoratives are fundamentally an emotional expression. people will endlessly find new euphemisms to express a feeling as long as expressing feeling is allowed. And you can't really disallow expressing feeling without going full north korea where fear of retaliation is the primary operant emotion keeping emotional expression in check.
Since the US government can't legally do it, the purpose of cancel culture is to backdoor similar norm-shaping retaliation into the private space via jannies, HR departments, lawyers, and spontaneous or astroturfed social justice mobs
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I already use it as a slur.![:marseythumbsup: :marseythumbsup:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseythumbsup.webp)
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It's like taking away people's words to express an insult does not take away the desire to express the insulting speech. Weird.
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Quick, show them running shoe ads all teens are into jogging now![:marseyclueless: :marseyclueless:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyclueless.webp)
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You sound like a real cute twink.
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Now? Neighbor, how long you been using gmail?
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I haven't lmao
But I know what you mean, point is it sounded like a black mirror episode not too long ago.
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