Both: What do you think of the new Super Straight movement?

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[–]a_green_squidtransmed i guess? 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Quoting people is not 'choosing' to use a slur, get out of here with that.

[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

It's customary when quoting to use a typographical device to indicate clearly that something is a quote. Such as quotation marks. Or on this site

this kind of thing

You used neither in the case of the offensive slur you used. You just stated it outright, giving no indication that this was someone else's term you were quoting:

I won't disagree with the point, but when every other big superstraight post on twitter was full of the usual alt right guys talking about how disgusting trannies are I think it probably becomes a problem.

But funnily enough, in the next sentence you did use British-type quotation marks around another word, namely "movements."

That's the issue with 'movements' like these, is that's the kind of thing it attracts. but idk, again it's hard to really care about the new flavour of the month.

[–]a_green_squidtransmed i guess? 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Direct quoting and indirect quoting are two different things. I can give you some direct quotes if you'd like to read some really lovely things out there on the internet. It's obvious in the context of the sentence that this is said by 'alt right guys' ('usual alt right guys talking about how disgusting trannies are'), indirectly, as I have zero desire to search this stuff out to give you any semblance of a direct quote.

you did use British-type quotation marks

TIL that's a British thing, cool.