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Because a slur is not a description of a slur, it is the slur itself. You can argue about whether it's appropriate to use in different contexts, but pretending
by aninhumer 9y ago
Because a slur is not a description of a slur, it is the slur itself.
You can argue about whether it's appropriate to use in different contexts, but pretending it's the same as the word "murder" or "knife" is a false equivocation.
- grkvlt 9y agoThere's a concept called the 'use-mention distinction' [0] that is very important here. It is fine to mention the word 'nigger' in the context of reporting speech, for example, but not fine to use the word, in which case it becomes a racial slur. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...