I have an acquaintance who occasionally has used it and I've upgraded from shooting daggers with my eyes to saying "yo seriously what the fuck is wrong with you, stop using that word"
Having had it used on me, as an actual slur, I go off on anyone who uses it.
And not just online. Somebody had the gall to use it in the con suite at...I forget which con, and I went off, and then he got *dogpiled*. Not physically, but I am pleased to announce nobody took his side.
I am really just stunned and saddened this is happening with so little backlash. (I would not be at all shocked if the next word he tries to normalize in MAGAland has the r at the end. I really truly hope he'd hit the line there, that people wouldn't just shrug. Also, not trying at all to equate!)
transgender individuals (the word we use to describe frog specimens in freshman bio)
preferred pronouns (look he doesn’t respect your preference to be treated as fully human, you don’t respect his preference to crack open Antarctica, can we meet in the middle)
Don't give gas to Pinker’s treadmill- actions matter more than words and a million times more on the internet.
I have interacted with some of the most unkind people on the internet who thrive by virtue signaling through the abuse of euphemisms to silence actual liberals.
But adults had the power to stop them from saying it and punishing them if they continued to do it after that first talking to. Now they won't be able to because it's now being sanctioned by the US Govt.
It's not cussing when you hurl bigoted slurs at other people. It's verbal abuse that has to be punished. You don't punish kids for saying fuck or shit or another curse word. Get goddamn lost.
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And not just online. Somebody had the gall to use it in the con suite at...I forget which con, and I went off, and then he got *dogpiled*. Not physically, but I am pleased to announce nobody took his side.
preferred pronouns (look he doesn’t respect your preference to be treated as fully human, you don’t respect his preference to crack open Antarctica, can we meet in the middle)
I have interacted with some of the most unkind people on the internet who thrive by virtue signaling through the abuse of euphemisms to silence actual liberals.