• krolden
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    1 year ago

    How can it have any real meaning if everyone has their own personal definition?

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      1 year ago

      Lots of things work like that. It’s called connotation (personal definition and significance), which does not require denotation (an actual definition)

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        1 year ago

        Yeah sounds like the definition of a slur

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          1 year ago

          Slur, “an insinuation or allegation about someone that is likely to insult them or damage their reputation.” So, yes. I’m not particularly worried about slurs against tankies, just like I don’t care about insulting or harming the reputation of nazis

          ETA: pigs is a slur for cops, that’s a slur I don’t mind either