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> anything you say is an intolerable statement because of who might get offended by it. That isn't what OP said though. I believe they were commenting that all
by rhcom2 8y ago
> anything you say is an intolerable statement because of who might get offended by it.
That isn't what OP said though. I believe they were commenting that all words are not the same to every group of people and cultural and historical context matters.
- slg 8y agoExactly. It has nothing to do with who might be offended. It has to do with a history of racial oppression. No one is going to complain if you compare a individual black person to a rat or an individual Jewish person to a monkey because there is no historical precedent of those insults being used as blanket attacks against those groups. It is when you flip those two that you will get in trouble.
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