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Is using the n word without implying they are being inferior racist or being a pottymouth?
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If your intent wasn't racist I wouldn't claim you are. However, you gotta read the room man. And when the room is the entirety of Reddit it's best to snuff out a joke like this before it hits the web you know? I don't really know anyone that this would land well with.
I have, however, known a few people who have faced similar confusion as you are now. They ended up being neurodivergent, and it was hard for them to comprehend that even with clean intentions, some things shouldn't be said. Please don't take this as an insult or me being accusatory of you, I just think it might be worth looking into based on the little information I'm working with here.
I live in New York and new yorkers swear like drunken sailors. F-bombs every other word and the n-word gets slung around in every sentence, especially by black people. It's baffling to me that this should be a problem in a country that supposedly respects free speech. People act like they have the right to not be offended and they don't. There is no safe space in the Constitution, and yes our free speech applies online.
I've seen some people claim that free speech doesn't apply on servers like reddit because they are privately owned. So Constitutional rights don't extend to private property? Does that mean I can own slaves as long as I shackle them inside my house and can never escape? Because the 13th amendment wouldn't apply inside my house? The bill of rights applies everywhere, including privately owned servers. No one has the right to be protected from offensive speech.
The First Amendment of the US Constitution ostensibly is there to prevent the government from stifling your right to free speech.
Any private entity can restrict your action in/on their property.. Which websites are.
They're NOT the government.
Their house, their rules.
Not when you don't have a right to be on said property. If you come in my house using language I don't approve of, I will ask u to leave and you will :)
I would refute most of the other arguments you made, but full of logical fallacies. Would take too long. Genuinely curious though: how old are you?