04-15-2020, 12:32 PMRomanesEuntDomus Wrote: I don't know all the details about the specific cases but it does feel like we could be going a bit overboard with some of these suspensions. At the end of the day these cases shouldn't be about the word itself, but about the intent with which it was sad. If someone uses "gay" or "retarded" as a throwaway term in some Discord conversation to describe something that he doesn't like then that's not cool, but it's very different from using those words to specifically target other people and go after them with personal attacks. Just inventing more and more -ism's and throwing them into peoples faces isn't particularly helpful.

With that being said, it's pretty obvious that most of these people are just coming back to troll, stir the pot and feel cool and edgy, so it's tough to feel much sympathy for them - because the intentions are obvious and go beyond accidentally using the word.

Can you fuck off?

I started this thread to create a legitimate conversation on a controversial topic and you're using the platform to spout some "higher than thou" soapbox bullshit as if you're the moral voice of reason in this community.