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And 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
by dvt 5y ago
And 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.