Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files

Re:Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only thei... by thomond on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:20AM (#41377246)

On a side note I find interesting Github allow users to use slurs as their usernames. Never seen it on most websites these days.

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Re:Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only thei... by nine_k on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:24AM (#41377279)

Has "queer" become a slur? Even as a part of the "LGBTQ+" moniker?

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Re:Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only thei... by michaelt on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @06:12AM (#41377890)

Queer was a slur within living memory [1] - it's been largely reclaimed in the last few decades, but it's still offensive to some. You'll find that when respectable publications use the term, it's always in a positive context.

When it comes to LGBTQ it's not offensive - much like one can refer to legendary gangster rap group NWA by their chosen abbreviation, even if the N stands for a word you wouldn't use in polite company.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2019/08/21/7523303...

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Re:Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only thei... by pmx on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:32AM (#41377320)

It used to be a slur, then the community adopted the word as their own. That historical negative connotation still lingers for those who remember it that way, though.

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Re:Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only thei... by nine_k on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:18AM (#41377601)

I think that the word "queer" has been used for a long enough time in neutral to positive contexts, including official. I won't see it as an offensive word by itself. It's similar to what happened to the word "geek".

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Re:Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only thei... by thomond on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:46AM (#41377418)

The 'N' word has seen a similar adoption and "historical negative connotatione still lingers for those who remember it that way" as well. I doubt they'll allow that particular slur however(and rightly so).

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Re:Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only thei... by pessimizer on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @08:05AM (#41378548)

The big difference is that black people didn't "reclaim" the "N"-word slur, we always used it, it just doesn't mean the same thing when we say it to each other*. Now, the internet and the media spend a lot of effort to keep us from saying it.

In the case of "queer", it seems that even straight people somehow got to reclaim it, everybody is throwing it around, and that a large number of gay people don't like it at all.

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[*] Between black people it's usually more about telling somebody they're full of themselves. From white people to black people, empirically, it has almost always been followed with a murder threat.

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Re:Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only thei... by bheadmaster on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:21AM (#41377632)

    - queer
    adjective
    1.
    strange; odd.
    "she had a queer feeling that they were being watched

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Re:Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only thei... by nextaccountic on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @06:32AM (#41378028)

Many LGBT+ people identify with the "queer" label

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Re:Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only thei... by ktosobcy on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:37AM (#41377350)

I would not consider it a slur tbh...

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Re:Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only thei... by righthand on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @08:28AM (#41378709)

Only a slur if you have hate in your heart when you use it. Otherwise it has common usage.

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Re:Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only thei... by thomond on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @08:35AM (#41378768)

You can claim this about all slurs, my point is that most websites don't care and blanket ban them.

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Re:Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only thei... by righthand on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @09:05AM (#41379040)

You can claim this about any non-slurs too. I actually would argue that most sites don’t do any kind of blanket ban, perhaps social sites. Queer as a slur has American roots. Most of the world doesn’t acknowledge such illogical frailty.

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