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>Anyone here who was bullied in high school, say, and enjoyed it? I sure didn't... And therein lies the rub. People like you, who couldn't find a coping mecha
by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>Anyone here who was bullied in high school, say, and enjoyed it? I sure didn't...
And therein lies the rub.
People like you, who couldn't find a coping mechanism to deal with childhood bullying [all children are vicious wee thugs, until they learn otherwise] think that you can somehow control what people "feel inside" by controlling what words they can use to express themselves. Ditto the people who think you can somehow stop anyone having racist or homopobic attitudes by banning completely innocuous words [see Montenegro comment above] as people might see them as racist or hompophobic.
Kids will always bully other kids, racists will always hate other races and homophobic people will always hate gays. If you ban one word, they'll come up with another. If you ban that, they'll come up with another... rinse and repeat. As I've said before, if you follow that path to its conclusion, you end up with Newspeak [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak