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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-49•2 months agoIt’s impossible to use it as a slur, as cis people are not oppressed.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish35•edit-22 months agoThat sounds sensible on first thought…but it’s easy to find slurs that are for non-oppressed people’s. The French, for example.
minus-square@prettybunnyslinkEnglish25•2 months agoIt’s not sensible in any way, you can have slurs for anyone. Someone not being oppressed doesn’t make them suddenly incapable of being oppressed or held down.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish35•2 months agoA slur is any word that is used to insult someone based on their immutable characteristics (race, gender, sexuality, religion, ableness, etc.). There is NO requirement of oppression.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-35•2 months agoExtremely shallow analysis, certain words have a much different history than others and theres a lot of bad faith implications going on herea Would you say cracker and the nword are on the same level?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish19•edit-22 months agoInteresting abuse of the relative privation fallacy E: oh, it’s a burner account.
minus-squareObliviousEnlightenmentlinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 months ago“Plus power” is not how cooquial definitions work. Speak colloquial if you want go talk to normies
minus-square@SoulglinkEnglish17•edit-22 months agoAny word said with enough hatred is a slur Of course that being said I’ve never ever heard cis used like that either
It’s impossible to use it as a slur, as cis people are not oppressed.
That sounds sensible on first thought…but it’s easy to find slurs that are for non-oppressed people’s.
The French, for example.
It’s not sensible in any way, you can have slurs for anyone.
Someone not being oppressed doesn’t make them suddenly incapable of being oppressed or held down.
A slur is any word that is used to insult someone based on their immutable characteristics (race, gender, sexuality, religion, ableness, etc.). There is NO requirement of oppression.
Extremely shallow analysis, certain words have a much different history than others and theres a lot of bad faith implications going on herea
Would you say cracker and the nword are on the same level?
Interesting abuse of the relative privation fallacy
E: oh, it’s a burner account.
“Plus power” is not how cooquial definitions work. Speak colloquial if you want go talk to normies
Jeez, could you be more of a blatant troll?
Any word said with enough hatred is a slur
Of course that being said I’ve never ever heard cis used like that either
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