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A comment on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative. Parent comment

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by imgabe on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:03AM (#34064270)
For the vast majority of words on this list, they would not be used to try to insult anyone. You would have to deliberately misinterpret them to find an insult. Why would anyone do that?

They wouldn't, and they don't. The insult is purely imagined by people who write these lists.

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by dekken_ on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:08AM (#34064308)
Your comment I responded too seemed more general, which is how I was responding to it, the article can eat my ass tbh
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