I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate
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You know, let us be honest for five minutes.
Psychology has shown that we have biases against anyone who doesn't look like us. It's just survival 101 from not so ancient times.
So maybe your parents had theses biases, unconsciently. Maybe even, they have been raised in a society which was racist, by definition. If they have lived anytime before the eighties, things were really rough (not that it's not right now, but it was something else...)
Now, let's just say that at their core, they were racist. So what ? Is it really important ? They have shown you how to behave, what is right and what is not. They have worked to better themselves, so that is the only thing that should matter.
Because, in the grand scheme of things, your parents would have told you from age two : do not shit in your pants, and they would have done the same. With dementia, maybe at some point they even forgot that one rule so... Being racist is excusable, because -and I'm sorry- they were not themselves in their final hours.
I appreciate and understand your perspective, but I want to clarify some context:
This was my dad's mom, so my grandparents. Had they been my parents and I'd known them at the age at which they raised me, then I'd immediately know how they raised their kids. But since this was my grandmother who raised my dad, it left me wondering what kind of parents my dad had. Was my dad a non-judgmental person in spite of his parents?
And the answer was, "no." He learned to cast aside prejudices from my grandmother's sick right-cross. It was mostly that kind of revelation that I needed to feel my catharsis.
(Added context: my dad is dead and I never heard that story from him. He died before my grandmother did, so I never got the opportunity to ask him about what her views on race were when he was a child.)
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Speak for yourself, I identify as a swearwolf because of my filthy fucking language
Watch your fucking mouth. I didn't raise a werewolf to talk that kinda shit!
Do as I say, not say as I say, fuckface
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... honestly, I don't think anyone has ever explicitly said to me (especially growing up) to not use slurs - you just don't use them bcs they obviously harm people, basic empathy & stuff (if the greed of just living in a better society isn't enough).
... but there sure have been a fucktone of folk telling me not to use some arbitrary "bad words" they deemed vulgar. No logical reason given, just random societal oppression.
They're the no-no word because someone used them to hurt someone else.
I don't know what "removed" means, I assume it's black in spanish or something, it doesn't make sense on it's own.
It's just a word that people used to hurt other people, so we can't use them.
Literally, "we can't have nice things" applied to word, although, whatever that word means, I guess we have other words that mean black so, ok, whatever, we still have plenty of other 6 letter words so "meh".Would be nice if people stopped being such shitheads and using group dominance to subjugate other groups.
I think instead of attacking words, we should attack the mechanic behind them ?
If the slur comes out it's already too late, the dominance play has already infected them.It has to be defused before they even say it. Find why people are being so shit, it's not just a reaction, it's not the word itself making them do it.
There a reason why they become nasty slur-spewing goblins.
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Watch your fucking mouth. I didn't raise a werewolf to talk that kinda shit!
Do as I say, not say as I say, fuckface
wrote last edited by [email protected]Fuck that, you're not my real dad! Plus, I learned it from you, fartfucker.
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Yarhaarrharrr ye facist curr
I will insult people for how they dress, specifically people who were clothes with Confederate flag shirts. I once saw someone with a confederate flag shirt that said "Try burning this one" my grandmother saw me staring and told me no. Yes I was working out the logistics of how to set someone on fire, I took the shirt as a challenge.
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Yarhaarrharrr ye facist curr
My daughter said "oh shit" as her first curse word. Seems appropriate for the times
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Yarhaarrharrr ye facist curr
Who is this creepy creature in the distance?
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Who is this creepy creature in the distance?
Logzilla
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Yarhaarrharrr ye facist curr
Why wouldnt you call someone an illegal immigrant if thats what they are?
Being a "human being" isnt a get out of jail free card. If you drink and drive, youre a drink driver. If you rape someone, youre a rapist. If you murder someone, youre a murderer. If you steal, youre a thief. You move countries, you are an immigrant. If you do it without falling the rules of the country you moved to, youre an illegal immigrant.Why the fuck are you people always over correcting???
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Who is this creepy creature in the distance?
682 got loose again
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Yarhaarrharrr ye facist curr
some people objectively are illegal immigrants. apparantly facts are racist now
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I will insult people for how they dress, specifically people who were clothes with Confederate flag shirts. I once saw someone with a confederate flag shirt that said "Try burning this one" my grandmother saw me staring and told me no. Yes I was working out the logistics of how to set someone on fire, I took the shirt as a challenge.
shouldnt u be looking for the water chip? the vault really needs it
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Why wouldnt you call someone an illegal immigrant if thats what they are?
Being a "human being" isnt a get out of jail free card. If you drink and drive, youre a drink driver. If you rape someone, youre a rapist. If you murder someone, youre a murderer. If you steal, youre a thief. You move countries, you are an immigrant. If you do it without falling the rules of the country you moved to, youre an illegal immigrant.Why the fuck are you people always over correcting???
Given the context he's talking about judging people by their looks. You cannot tell just by looking at someone whether or not their immigration status is legal. You need more information than just their apparent ethnicity.
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Who is this creepy creature in the distance?
Definitely not something OP's kids will ever know the truth about.
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Yarhaarrharrr ye facist curr
I hope it doesn't take too much effort.
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some people objectively are illegal immigrants. apparantly facts are racist now
I cant believe i have to explain this but...
There's lots of ways you can refer to people. Some are respectful, some are not.
This might shock you but some parents teach their kids to be respectful of others. Avoiding labelling people in ways they might not appreciate is a good start.
It may be a "fact" that someone is an "illegal immigrant" but I'm sure you can see that term is intended to portray the person in a specific way.
Its also a fact that such a person is an undocumented migrant trying to feed their family, or maybe even an asylum seekers fleeing persecution.
So yes, representing facts in a racist way is racist. Well done.
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Yarhaarrharrr ye facist curr
A couple of nights ago I was in the car with my 8 year old daughter and Killing In The Name Of by Rage Against the Machine came on... my instinct was to skip to the next song, but then I thought "No, this is a song she needs to hear" because if she has questions she knows that she can ask.
A couple of songs later, it was Closer by NIN... I immediately skipped to the next song.
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I will insult people for how they dress, specifically people who were clothes with Confederate flag shirts. I once saw someone with a confederate flag shirt that said "Try burning this one" my grandmother saw me staring and told me no. Yes I was working out the logistics of how to set someone on fire, I took the shirt as a challenge.
Oh no! The evil people have all the commercially available flame throwers!
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Yarhaarrharrr ye facist curr
Unpopular opinion: profanity is massively overhyped and people that excessively swear tend to irk me. There are so many ways to passionately express emotion, at least in the English language, yet so many are fascinated with only a few. The word "fuck" in particular loses all gravitas after hearing it 150 times a day for most of my life. I've had to stop watching certain shows because swearing felt so excessively forced to perhaps come across as edgy, and it broke all immersion for me.
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Unpopular opinion: profanity is massively overhyped and people that excessively swear tend to irk me. There are so many ways to passionately express emotion, at least in the English language, yet so many are fascinated with only a few. The word "fuck" in particular loses all gravitas after hearing it 150 times a day for most of my life. I've had to stop watching certain shows because swearing felt so excessively forced to perhaps come across as edgy, and it broke all immersion for me.
Yeah the only environment it seems to fit is the military which sort of makes sense for how often you get smoked long before you ever see combat or even just active duty.
And even then most military people have a cleaned up citizen dictionary for whenever they're not with their buddies.
Anything outside of that just seems excessive and vulgar for no apparent gain or reason. Even funny and wildly profane comments online don't use expletives as much as some people do IRL.
There has to be wordplay and emphasis to make it justied (or funny like the gorilla warfare copypasta), otherwise it just comes of the same as ending every single sentence or phrase with "lol".
