I've been doing a lot of silent listening and thinking through this whole thing (mostly because I'm not confident I won't make it worse) but yeah, when I got to that point in her post, I just had to stop and ask "Did she *really* say that?"
Did she really think that bringing in slurs for underclasses from *other* languages would be helpful in any way?
I hadn't remembered just how awful it was until I looked it up more context just now, but just the suffix -ing ought to be enough to tell you it's an insult based on membership in a cultural (sub)group, which is just exactly on the nose for a privilege discussion.
And omg. Yes! Let's use one of the three homophobic insults that's bad enough to give you the legal right to kill the user! That will calm things down!
(Who thought this debate would come around to the point where "Let Us Explain To Ya'll About Anglo-Saxon Culture" would actually be relevant. sigh.)
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Did she really think that bringing in slurs for underclasses from *other* languages would be helpful in any way?
I hadn't remembered just how awful it was until I looked it up more context just now, but just the suffix -ing ought to be enough to tell you it's an insult based on membership in a cultural (sub)group, which is just exactly on the nose for a privilege discussion.
And omg. Yes! Let's use one of the three homophobic insults that's bad enough to give you the legal right to kill the user! That will calm things down!
(Who thought this debate would come around to the point where "Let Us Explain To Ya'll About Anglo-Saxon Culture" would actually be relevant. sigh.)