Whats the point of writing prn, f@ck, sht or anything like that instead of the actual words? You can still read them, its not like they are gone if you replace a letter or two.

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    8 months ago

    Because swearing is a natural part of the human experience and most level headed people don’t feel the need to suppress human expression.

    Swearing serves an important biological need to express emotion and communicate. Psychologically, we swear to express strong emotions and when people swear, they are inherently viewed as more trustworthy or honest. Swearing helps people bond.

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      7 months ago

      They’re not talking about swearing. Call someone a fucking shit-eating worm is fine. But on the other hand are words used to insult marginalized groups (women, homosexuals, the mentally disabled, etc.). B/*itch, wh/*ore, c/*nt; c/*cksucker, f/*g; r/*tard, a/*tist, etc.

      These are the words being blocked. Not swears, slurs. You can say fuck, shit, damn, and hell all you want.

      For what it’s worth, I tend to fall on the side of a little bit being fine. I don’t use those words (except the slurs against w/*men), but if there’s one thing I fucking hate, it’s Scolds. If Felix Biederman wants to call people r/*tards and c/*cksuckers, I think he should be allowed to, and I’m not going to try to cancel him for it.

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      8 months ago

      Fuck that shit, i’ll swear all the god-damned hell I want and that doesn’t even begin to excuse the use of slurs. Nice attempt at cracker leftism.

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          7 months ago

          Yes I am racist against white people, and the fact that you aren’t tells me everything I need to know about what you stand for.

          EDIT: All the baby neo-nazis really showing up for this one. I’m going to need a bigger block list to fit all these scratched liberals

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        I think there’s some miscommunication here. You’re the only person in this thread that brought up slurs. Everyone else is talking about swear words which is a different thing. I don’t think anyone here is saying slurs aren’t bad. What people are saying is it should be ok to use swear words, which you just demonstrated with your comment.

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          7 months ago

          I’m not confused, misogo is so rampant that people don’t even consider them to be slurs, kind of like what used to happen to ableist slurs.

          I’m willing to bet a good amount of people in this comment section used to use ableist slurs before they were told not to, because they treat slurs as “words I’m not allowed to say” rather than genuinely not wanting to hurt the groups that said slurs are targeting.