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Why are people censoring "bad" words?
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I think there’s some miscommunication here. You’re the only person in this thread that brought up slurs. Everyone else is talking about swear words which is a different thing. I don’t think anyone here is saying slurs aren’t bad. What people are saying is it should be ok to use swear words, which you just demonstrated with your comment.
I'm not confused, misogo is so rampant that people don't even consider them to be slurs, kind of like what used to happen to ableist slurs.
I'm willing to bet a good amount of people in this comment section used to use ableist slurs before they were told not to, because they treat slurs as "words I'm not allowed to say" rather than genuinely not wanting to hurt the groups that said slurs are targeting.