this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
343 points (99.7% liked)

Work Reform

16432 readers
803 users here now

A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

Our Goals

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I feel like in historical context it's unnecessary to censor the word Negroes, even though it's no longer acceptable. I actually looked up the article you quoted to make sure Vlady wasn't dropping hard R's, since you kind of never know.

However that could be the type of buried white privilege similar to thinking it'd be fun to travel back in time to see history in person is, and am open to correction. Just seems like the term wasn't being used with hate like the N word absolutely always was and is.

Edit: never been more relieved to be on the mark...

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly I'm just used to censoring it for the reddit/facebook/etc algorithmic censors. I generally dislike censoring quotes.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I strongly agree with censoring quotes, largely in general. Unless the person has used such terrible vulgarity that the repetition of it in quoting is useless and can just be replaced by [slur], don't wash somebody else's disgusting language for them let their words belong to them.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The term is still acceptable, just not on US social media. You also should say "unalive" instead of "dead", it's all idiocy.

I think you can still say "idiocy"

I'm not sure if the word police phenomenon is a USA thing or world-wide... hopefully other countries don't divert themselves with such needless, constant drama over language.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

United N**** College Fund