is the R word a "slur" against? I'm failing to comprehend how a word can universally be a slur without the definition or origin of the word being derogatory.
I'm failing to see why I have 2 violations for a word I was using in context of it's definition:
deleteddeletedabout 11 years ago
But the website is allowed to have whatever rules that they please. It's their website, their rules. You follow them or be punished.
deleteddeletedabout 11 years ago
"absolute freedom on a private we site" it's public
admins don't create rules like gods
i dont have enough freedom due to adsense because there's little 13 year olds roaming this website who would tell their mommi on lucid
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deleteddeletedabout 11 years ago
Hate to break it to you, but you aren't entitled to absolute freedom on a private we site where the administrators are free to create whatever rules I'm which they please.
You do have the freedom, though, to leave if you don't like this site's rules.
It's generally used as a slow against people with cognitive disabilities. No one that has been reported for using that word toward someone was telling them to slow down.
deleteddeletedabout 11 years ago
its still offensive. There are people on this site who have family members with disabilities. I'm sure if your sister had a mental disability you'd be offended by that word.
"ok sure, i guess the word does have a history of being used to marginalize or entirely invalidate huge groups of people for something they were born with, but when I say it i really just mean kinda dumb, so it's fine!!"
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deleteddeletedabout 11 years ago
Plus if they had severe developmental difficulties they wouldn't understand what you were saying.
I used to say the r word quite a bit until I met a girl who works with mentally disabled children and she can't stand people using that word and Ive kind of become the same way.
I don't understand why you're trying to defend such unnecessary hostility, I've always accepted a violation when I've blown up on people I'm the past.
Yes, lets also point out that you're ignoring context and the definition of the word to enforce an agenda that has nothing to do with my use of the word.
I'd also like you to introduce me to this demographic of the site I'm being offensive towards as stated in the OP so we can talk terms about the use of the word to be offensive, but not towards them. I will be privilege checking though because your agenda is stupid and limiting and there are far better things you could be doing that would actually help the site.
deleteddeletedabout 11 years ago
let us sit down and converse about how the r word does not just mean "stupid", it is not just a synonym for "stupid", and putting your fingers in your ears and pretending that just because you, are using it that way suddenly means that you've changed the social definition of it and what impact + connotation it's going to have
let's talk about that but not now since i'm tired lol
deleteddeletedabout 11 years ago
let's have a chat about how using the r word over using the word "stupid" implies that having developmental disabilities makes you a lesser person with inherently negative qualities
deleteddeletedabout 11 years ago
let's talk about how medically the r word was used and "stupid" has not
I stopped coming here 3 years ago because it was acceptable to post pictures of apes and black face towards me. I have a pretty good grasp of slurs and their context, however in neither cases of my HC violations was I targetting someone that R word applied to with my use of it.
deleteddeletedabout 11 years ago
yes, please proceed to tell me about how calling someone with developmental disabilities the r word will make them break down in tears in the same way that calling them dumb will
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