Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off

lipilee@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• parlaptie@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yikes dude, even Peter Thiel hat the good sense to censor the slur.

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  • lipilee@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And i guarantee you that he’s still more racist than i am… but okay, my comme t is removed now, and nobody cared to explain the actual source of the term, i learned from it anyway.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We in Europe tend to not be afraid of words and censoring them feels pretty pointless. It’s just a word, it’s the context that gives it meaning, which in this case was educational. If you go calling people slurs then obviously the context changes, but on its own it’s just a word.

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• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Racist slur.

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