I do feel, though, that we can't actually asterisk everything that might trigger anyone. I... well, I'm caught between "obviously we should try not to hurt anyone's feelings ever" and "but I kind of like edgy obnoxious possibly evil speech and I often think it's funny and useful and can exist without actually hurting people"*.
I'm generally uncomfortable with deciding that nobody should ever say something ever. Even the things that I think nobody should ever say.
Maybe I think it's because it's better we let people say it sometimes so we know they're still thinking it. The problem is that people think it, right, not just that they say it? Probably both. I dunno.
* with a dose of "was it really necessary for thirty of you to pile on me for using 'drink the kool-aid' after I apologized?" And no I won't stop using it, although I try not to use any language around people it may upset, but I rather like the phrase and do not think it means I'm actually calling people suicide cultists.
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I do feel, though, that we can't actually asterisk everything that might trigger anyone. I... well, I'm caught between "obviously we should try not to hurt anyone's feelings ever" and "but I kind of like edgy obnoxious possibly evil speech and I often think it's funny and useful and can exist without actually hurting people"*.
I'm generally uncomfortable with deciding that nobody should ever say something ever. Even the things that I think nobody should ever say.
Maybe I think it's because it's better we let people say it sometimes so we know they're still thinking it. The problem is that people think it, right, not just that they say it? Probably both. I dunno.
* with a dose of "was it really necessary for thirty of you to pile on me for using 'drink the kool-aid' after I apologized?" And no I won't stop using it, although I try not to use any language around people it may upset, but I rather like the phrase and do not think it means I'm actually calling people suicide cultists.