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When I was graduating high school not long before you, it was still socially acceptable to use gay slurs. The social change happened fast, and not evenly in all
by weberc2 9y ago
When I was graduating high school not long before you, it was still socially acceptable to use gay slurs. The social change happened fast, and not evenly in all places. Society needs to have some grace of we aren't too have a huge group of people bitter about being punished for breaking a new social rule. Besides that, we have a tendency to oversimplify and assume every race-related thing is racism, so I don't trust or society to police speech.
- misingnoglic 9y agoFor the record, here are the memes: https://thetab.com/us/2017/06/05/harvard-memes-rescinded-69413 https://thetab.com/us/2017/06/05/harvard-memes-rescinded-694... You can't tell me this is at all equivalent to calling someone "gay"
- weberc2 9y agoThere are more offensive slurs than "gay", but my point wasn't to make an equivalence, only to say that punishing someone in accordance with a relatively new social norm isn't a universally good idea.