> Even though retard is in the dictionary and a widely accepted term by many people.
All curse words are in the dictionary. Dictionaries are for looking up meaning, not moral arbiters. What are you on about?
All curse words are in the dictionary. Dictionaries are for looking up meaning, not moral arbiters. What are you on about?
Your comment would have been fine without the last bit.
Criticising people’s language without their context reminds me of Americans getting upset when they hear Spanish speakers say the word “black”.
Plenty of standup comedians use humor that I find distasteful or even offensive. I just read a book instead of watching them. Plenty of bars are frequented by people I don't like. I just go to a different bar.
No one has to visit WSB, but I'd prefer to live in a society that errs on the side of allowing people to congregate and communicate as they see fit.
As an aside, I've had to deal with two kinds of assholes in my life: people who use offensive language, and people who get offended at everything. I'd rather deal with neither, but if I had to chose, I much prefer the former.
Why is WSB different?
You can say whatever you want in a closed, private discord group. Discord isn't going to care if it's a server with a dozen users who are all close friends. It's when you go posting invite links everywhere and get a community in the thousands that Discord start taking an interest and enforcing their brand protection.
A cabal of rich people pressuring an unrelated gaming chat company to ban a subreddit which is attempting to destroy a hedge fund?
OR
The increased popularity of WSB leads to increased scrutiny of everything associated with it and discord has a brand to protect?
It's simpler to just ring a friend of a friend than to worry about WSB Discord rn. At this exact point in time.
there is no proof that this connection exists
Because they annoy the "rich and powerful".
To enforce any social norm/standards (even a linguistic/semantic one) is moral arbitration!
A dictionary is in no position to tell me what I mean when I use the words that I use.
That is why the meaning of “meaning” is circularly defined.
It's starting with noble causes, like stemming racism and hate speech. But this is one step into a land of control where divergent opinions will be cause for deplatforming.
This is dangerous.
That was always a justification.
It's like someone yells "Teh skie is falling". And you are correcting grammar errors. While comets rain down.