Comment on Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry
briongloid@aussie.zone 1 year agoIt’s a frequent occurrence in Reddit that I read a typed out “Letter-word”, not knowing what swear/slur as the same letter could mean multiple different words in my regional English dialect.
What frustrates me is that words that could harm require effort to ensure the context is clear and respectful, people who just swap it with a Letter-word don’t care enough to treat what they are saying with importance.
I’ve previously asked what a comments letter-word was referring to as I couldn’t even find it via Google, the responses where downvotes and being told I should know what it means.
Hurtful words either shouldn’t be said at all, or if being referred to need to be treated with delicacy and respect as if their harm matters, saying them while not saying them is the laziest and most disrespectful way of handling that.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Hurtful words either shouldn’t be said at all”
Where is this though? As a queer person, I’m not removing words from my vocabulary which refer to people like myself. Just as I wouldn’t tell POC to not use the n-word.
briongloid@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I meant in the case where it would be hurtful, obviously it wouldn’t be reasonably hurtful to say it in a context which it isn’t, that was the point of what I was saying.
I would say the same words if I had a reason to discuss whichever word, neither of us are directing it to a person with an explicit intent to cause harm.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s almost impossible to police that though.