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arrow-up1697arrow-down1external-linkJoe Rogan Slammed For Claiming Resurrection of Disability Slur Is 'One of the Greatest Cultural Victories'lockwww.latintimes.comfossilesque@mander.xyz to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square322linkfedilink
minus-squareWorkshopBubbylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down8·8 days agono one has ever been offended by the word removed, unless they are getting offended on someone else’s behalf to virtue signal
minus-squareLanguageIsCool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·7 days ago“Everything I don’t like is woke virtue signaling”
minus-squareWorkshopBubbylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agodo you think virtue signaling isn’t a real thing, or that it never happens?
minus-squareLanguageIsCool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoI didn’t say that. Do you think people who get offended at racial slurs are just virtue signaling?
minus-squareWorkshopBubbylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoNo. Maybe sometimes they are. But generally, racial slurs are used explicitly to be racist or offensive.
no one has ever been offended by the word removed, unless they are getting offended on someone else’s behalf to virtue signal
“Everything I don’t like is
wokevirtue signaling”do you think virtue signaling isn’t a real thing, or that it never happens?
I didn’t say that. Do you think people who get offended at racial slurs are just virtue signaling?
No. Maybe sometimes they are. But generally, racial slurs are used explicitly to be racist or offensive.