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Make em think their tax money is paying for "Ni--er food" and they'll burn down the entire education system.
Hell, replace Nword with F-word or Kword honestly doesn't matter.
Source: What happened to all the public swimming pools after Desegregation? And That one time a Republican signed a strict anti gun law the second the Black community exercised their Second.
This town had a lovely swimming pool which was suddenly closed and filled in during the 1960s. I can't imagine why.
What is the Fword or the Kword?
Gays and jews, I assume.
Holy shit. I couldn't figure out the K word, despite the fact that I literally wrote a joke that requires it.
...k word?
I believe they referring to "kike", a slur for jewish people.
With the degree of self censoring and the love acronyms and shortening words, it's becoming a challenge to follow written text.
Is the fword "faggot"?
the fword is "floating point", there are a lot of leftist programmers.
I’m a lefty programmer and I do indeed hate floating points. I’ve had it bite me far too many times.
What is the connection between those two?
It's a slur used for leftist programmers.
the connection between "floating point" and programming? gee no clue
Thank you, I was also confused by what the fuck the "K-word" could be. I think we could asterisk out a letter, so meaning is still conveyed, and the impact of the word might still be felt and understood.
I understand your reasoning but I can't subacribe it.
A word is a word. A word becomes an insult if it is used against someone, with that specific intent.
I specifically used the quotation marks because I wanted to convey the understanding that I was putting the words out with no connection to anything.
Writing on a social media outlet feels more and more like walking through a trap field. Cryptic acronyms, forbidden and self censored words and redacted sentences.
This is the worst kind of censorship I can think of. It blocks the person and others from fully expressing ideas and thoughts and preassigns a default judgement towards who is trying to convey an argument.
The best way to void a word - especially if an insult - is to ignore it. Don't use it, ignore it in others speech, attack the use of it as an insult.
Self censoring is not a good thing.
Honestly I wanted to be edgy but been trained that I'll get auto moderated if I just type it out.
Also people really do be thinking you are racist if you type out a word (or recite a song lyric) from a different point of view.
In other words, it's a no win scenario.
It is