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Mercedes Lackey Ejected From Nebula Conference For Using Racial Slur
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<blockquote data-quote="Ixal" data-source="post: 8644963" data-attributes="member: 7030132"><p>Was there really any harm done (to someone besides Lackey)? I will never understand the American definition of harm and how easily it gets thrown around.</p><p>Hearing a word you do not like, which many people do not even consider a slur, is not harm. Especially when you put it into context (something people seem to be able to do as otherwise they would constantly claim being harmed by rap songs which make use of the N word. Instead there are discussions about who is allowed to use the word and who not. So why not put this colored here into context?).</p><p>Its getting ridiculus with people getting offended by a country named Montenegro (actual example, there are tiktok videos about it) or that some languages have words that sound like the N word (and those people were aware that the others speak a different language).</p><p></p><p>And whats even more frightening is how normalized this outrage and the expected kowtow to the mob is and how many posters seem to ignore the collective punishment against Lackey's husband, a practice usually only associated with hardcore dictatorships.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ixal, post: 8644963, member: 7030132"] Was there really any harm done (to someone besides Lackey)? I will never understand the American definition of harm and how easily it gets thrown around. Hearing a word you do not like, which many people do not even consider a slur, is not harm. Especially when you put it into context (something people seem to be able to do as otherwise they would constantly claim being harmed by rap songs which make use of the N word. Instead there are discussions about who is allowed to use the word and who not. So why not put this colored here into context?). Its getting ridiculus with people getting offended by a country named Montenegro (actual example, there are tiktok videos about it) or that some languages have words that sound like the N word (and those people were aware that the others speak a different language). And whats even more frightening is how normalized this outrage and the expected kowtow to the mob is and how many posters seem to ignore the collective punishment against Lackey's husband, a practice usually only associated with hardcore dictatorships. [/QUOTE]
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