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Trans people like me are facing segregation now. We need parliament to restore our rights
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I don't like that the r slur has wormed itself back into common parlance, we nearly completely killed it off then suddenly it came back from nowhere
Edit: spelling
How old are you? Pretty sure people have used it for decades, at least since I was in school.
That doesn't make it not a slur?
When I call a someone a cunt it's not exactly supposed to be a compliment.
Do you also call someone an N word?
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This is a much more relevant question.
Cunt and R slur are not even comparable. But n word and r slur are.
I wouldn't order them like that tbh for lest to most offensive. I would put cunt in the middle.
It's that it's very directly targeted at a group of people, would you call someone that's not gay a
Faggot
It's the implications of "this group of people are inherently bad, and therefore my comparison of you to them is an insult"
Faggot is a weird American one so probably not personally but I can easily see context where I wouldn't be too bothered by it's usage
The point ain't the word, it's this:
Also no, it's not American, it's British, they imported it later
It's more that faggot isn't really a word I would use not because it's too offensive to use, but it just seems too American/irrelevant.
With the right context I might use gay as a mild insult.
Ah, so it's just that you're a prick and a homophobic one too, fair
Homophobic gays is an interesting concept
Ah see that's different then my gay brethren, we're allowed to say it cause it applies to us.
35, and they did, then it went away, then it came back
I don't remember it going away. Is that a regional thing?
Possibly, very possibly
I know I noticed it seem like almost overnight a few years ago that a bunch of American places online were suddenly angry about it. But no one in the real world cared. If it's regional in the UK then I would guess London follows the US more than the rest of us?
It sounds like you were just out of the loop to me tbh, and are assuming cause you live in bumfuck-nowhere, where it's like the 80s never left, that everyone else does
Pretty large town but nowhere near London