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[–] 9 points 5 months ago* (19 children)

I don't like that the r slur has wormed itself back into common parlance, we nearly completely killed it off then suddenly it came back from nowhere

Edit: spelling

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (18 children)

    How old are you? Pretty sure people have used it for decades, at least since I was in school.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    That doesn't make it not a slur?

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    When I call a someone a cunt it's not exactly supposed to be a compliment.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Do you also call someone an N word?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    @Korhaka@sopuli.xyz

    This is a much more relevant question.

    Cunt and R slur are not even comparable. But n word and r slur are.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I wouldn't order them like that tbh for lest to most offensive. I would put cunt in the middle.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (6 children)

    It's that it's very directly targeted at a group of people, would you call someone that's not gay a

    Faggot
    ?

    It's the implications of "this group of people are inherently bad, and therefore my comparison of you to them is an insult"

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    Faggot is a weird American one so probably not personally but I can easily see context where I wouldn't be too bothered by it's usage

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (4 children)

    The point ain't the word, it's this:

    It's the implications of "this group of people are inherently bad, and therefore my comparison of you to them is an insult"

    Also no, it's not American, it's British, they imported it later

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's more that faggot isn't really a word I would use not because it's too offensive to use, but it just seems too American/irrelevant.

    With the right context I might use gay as a mild insult.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Ah, so it's just that you're a prick and a homophobic one too, fair

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    35, and they did, then it went away, then it came back

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I don't remember it going away. Is that a regional thing?

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    I know I noticed it seem like almost overnight a few years ago that a bunch of American places online were suddenly angry about it. But no one in the real world cared. If it's regional in the UK then I would guess London follows the US more than the rest of us?

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