Comment on minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶

• doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Depending on the circumstance, I completely agree. There are certainly many cases where censoring yourself is giving away your power and freedom of expression.

  However, it’s not disingenuous to say that if I want to censor myself, for any reason, on the internet I will likely be shamed by folks who want to assert their values over mine. And in such I am once again giving away my power to the people who want to dictate what I do with my life.

  Perhaps I want to do it because I find it funny. Or perhaps I want to do it because I’m trying to emulate a classic comic book speech style, which often had to use censorship because they were being controlled, but now has become a recognizable convention. Or perhaps I want to do it simply to assert my right to speak how I choose, as I already mentioned, despite the “higher authority” of the crowd. Which as you already mentioned, f*%king sucks actually.

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  • Hoimo@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you don’t want to swear, don’t swear. Mildly censoring a swear word to “f*ck” doesn’t accomplish anything. Everyone who reads it knows exactly what it says. And if you go far enough to make it unrecognizable, like “!@#*”, now you’re just pretending to swear, but for what purpose? Couldn’t you accomplish your goals by rephrasing to avoid a swear word entirely? (Assuming your goal is to avoid swear words, of course. If the goal is to sound like a cartoon character, consider taking up a funny catch phrase.)

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    • doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What if I don’t “not want to swear”, what if I want to used self-censored curse words? Should I sacrifice my freedom of speech to appease others?

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      • Hoimo@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        What is your point? You don’t want to swear, but you don’t not want to swear either? Maybe sort out your beliefs then.

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