• circuitfarmer
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    716 days ago

    It never left. Using it still makes you look like an asshole.

    All these “free speech absolutists” still don’t realize that free speech does not mean immunity from consequences of that speech from your fellow citizens. It’s almost like they just haven’t paid attention for their entire lives.

    • @ameancow@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      I do not care about the word or what language people use broadly, as long as they’re using their “offensive words” to punch up.

      If you’re punching up, if you’re attacking power, I do NOT care and genuinely wish people would pull the gloves off more. But Joe Rogan IS power, he is so high up that anywhere he punches is down. People with great power who use language recklessly need to be knocked down for abusing the power behind their language.

      • @newfie@lemmy.ml
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        15 days ago

        So calling Trump a regard is acceptable then?

        That’s not a gotcha - tbh the “left”, to the extent there is such a thing in the US, would be more likable if it used the language of the actually existing working class to communicate its criticisms of capital. Tone policing is not an effective way to organize the proletariat or to spread class consciousness