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vaikrunta OP t1_jauhyww wrote

Reply to comment by Headless_Grammarian in Banning Words Won’t Make the World More Just - The Atlantic by vaikrunta

To nullify the classist effects you would have to let people speak the way they want to and then we are back to square one.

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Headless_Grammarian t1_javbaqr wrote

Right. My problem is that there are words I think shouldn't be used in polite company, like the n-word (except by black people). So I'm inconsistent in this. It's a knot I haven't figured out how to untangle.

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