Why are people censoring "bad" words?locked
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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"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)
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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"