Re:The moral case against equity language
by andsoitis on Friday March 03, 2023 @11:02AM
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You’re right that someone who calls me X or you Y won’t fight for us. What I tried to communicate is that folks who spend a lot of time fighting for using specific verbiage to refer to me so as to not offend, are not really helping me. In fact, as Dave Chapelle has pointed out, when it really comes down to it, even people who obsess about using language that they think would offend me don’t stick their necks out when it really matters; they might correct speech or go to a march (gay pride for instance), but ask them to sacrifice something and it is crickets.
Re:The moral case against equity language
by kenjackson on Friday March 03, 2023 @11:36AM
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Fair enough. I generally agree.
Re:The moral case against equity language
by yamtaddle on Friday March 03, 2023 @12:09PM
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> It’s about calling people they think are less than in general
OT, but does anyone know where this specific usage of "less than" came from? I'd never seen it until about five years ago and now it's everywhere. The word "inferior" would have been used before. What's the origin of this?
On your other point, you think that people who call you fag or other offensive language will fight for marriage equality? As a black person I’ve found that people who call me coon typically haven’t fought for me — even when they have something to gain (drain pool).