Why are people censoring "bad" words?locked

ɐɥO@lemmy.ohaa.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 215 points –

Whats the point of writing prn, f@ck, sht or anything like that instead of the actual words? You can still read them, its not like they are gone if you replace a letter or two.

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On lemmy.ml at least, there's a very good reason cause the admins are authoritarians. Can't even say "bitch" without it getting removed.

So then that leads to the question: why is lemmy.ml run by a bunch of prudish babies?

A better question is why do you feel the need to die on the hill of using slurs?

Because swearing is a natural part of the human experience and most level headed people don’t feel the need to suppress human expression.

Swearing serves an important biological need to express emotion and communicate. Psychologically, we swear to express strong emotions and when people swear, they are inherently viewed as more trustworthy or honest. Swearing helps people bond.

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"Bitch" is not a slur. It is a swear. Swears are fine, slurs are not. They are not equivelant, and shouldn't be treated as such.

I hate ml mods as much as the next guy, but also I would consider "bitch" to be kinda misogynistic in certain context.

The same can be said of any gendered term. That's honestly a comment on the context more than the word.

If you say the word bitch is as offensive as the f slur, t slur or n word, then you're saying those slurs are as harmless as the word bitch. If you believe that, I am offended by you. Do not put them in the same group.

see the problem I have here is by banning a word that is used as a slur maybe once every 1000 times you remove the 999 times it was not used as a slur, thereby making the situation worse rather than better. Banning words does fuck all to promote a healthier culture, all it does is make the vultures migrate to the next word they load up with negative connotations

Holy fucking hell. What kind of pearl clutching Victorian era bullshit is that?

Why do you feel the need to bitch about it?

"Don't do the thing" "I'm going to do the thing you just told me not to do"

Rape culture.

Rape culture

Because someone said bitch and doesn't follow your orders?

Lol.

But you're also probably trolling

No.

But thank you for establishing the fact you lack the cognitive capacity to engage this thread in good faith.

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I’m just surprised I haven’t been banned from .ml yet for calling out tankies when they do shitty tankie things.

Fun fact 1: if you do get banned or have your comments removed you'll only know if you check the modlogs. And likely only if you check the modlogs of the instance that took action against you as the modlogs don't fully sync between each other.

Fun fact 2: you have been in the past, here's a link to the mod actions against you on .ml

Fun fact 3: and so have I, I only just recently finished a 2 week ban over here on .ml for calling that kind of stuff out on here.

Edit: That didn't take long @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works looks like you got banned for your comment.

Sounds shit, the admins must be right bitches

"Being polite and using inclusive language is authoritarian"

You can be goddamn polite and still swear without automatically becoming a fucking asshole.

What you say can oftentimes be more important than the words you use to express the idea

Here's a great stand-up routine that highlights what I mean. Fair warning: there's some pretty NSFW language in it.

"There are no bad words, but there are several bad ways to express what you mean"

--Me (tho I'm sure someone way smarter than I has put out the same idea, but better worded, ironically enough)

Although I totally get why lemmy.ml would want to do something like that, it's not "being polite...", it's "enforcing politeness..."

If you gave "authoritarian" to an AI that determined what it meant through it use alone, it would think it means "Won't let me be a nazi"

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