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[–]mvmlego 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

What does a racial slur have to deal with saying the f word?

The principle encompasses slurs in general, and both of them are slurs.

tell me [why] you don't agree with me calling myself (BLOCKED WORD BEEP BEEP THOUGHTCRIME ALERT UH OH) but then go on to say it's bad if people can't use certain words neutrally???

I think there's an important distinction between targeted usage and nominative usage--but since the distinction is fundamentally intuitive to me, I'm struggling to explain it. I think it's analogous to how it would clearly be reasonable for somebody to feel offended by me saying to them "you are a moron", but it would clearly be unreasonable for them to feel insulted by me saying a sentence like "the word 'moron' has five letters".