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Those are called explicit and not offensive.
by k8sToGo 5y ago
Those are called explicit and not offensive.
- dvt 5y agoAnd who is the arbiter of what's "explicit" and not "offensive"? You? Me? Twitter? I totally support Spotify exercising its corporate agenda (whatever it may be), but let's not pretend there's some sort of moral high ground here.
- Ensorceled 5y agoThe targets of the slur are the ones who get to decide to co-opt it or not and if they want outsiders to use it not. The n-word has been co-opted, in a fashion, by the black community. Members of the black community, for the largest part, would still would be offended if I used that word. Queer has been co-opted by the LGBQT+ community, members of that community have asked me to use queer to describe them. Still feels weird to me to even to type it here. The f-word is out of bounds. Freedom of speech lets you use any of those words but, like all speech, others may judge you harshly because of those words and how you use them. Really, this isn't hard to figure out.
- Nicksil 5y ago>Those are called explicit and not offensive. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
- nextlevelwizard 5y agoJRE is also marked as explicit in Spotify
- emaginniss 5y agoIf Eminem released a song with that word, would it be offensive?
- duck 5y agoA lot of people would find _any_ song by Eminem offensive.
- long_time_gone 5y agoIn this case, the speaker of the words apologized for their offensiveness. Maybe we should take his word that they were, in fact, offensive.
- givinguflac 5y agoYes, if he was the one using it. This should be obvious at this point.
- _-david-_ 5y agoAnd? Spotify is apologizing partially because Rogan used the N word. Some people consider it offensive so they apologized. Why not apologize over the others who did the same thing?