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Author Topic: Inferred Slurs  (Read 5047 times)

Silver Night

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Re: Inferred Slurs
« Reply #15 on: 13 May 2010, 19:14 »
Then think very hard before hitting post, and make sure that you phrase things in the most careful way possible.

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Mizhara

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Re: Inferred Slurs
« Reply #16 on: 13 May 2010, 20:19 »
S'what happened here, isn't it?
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Re: Inferred Slurs
« Reply #17 on: 20 May 2010, 03:32 »
Quote from: scagga on 13 May 2010, 18:55
Can I ask, what if facts are offensive?

Then people get offended by facts? vOv Personally, I'd find that really hard to care about: is a bit like being offended by grass being green. :D
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Re: Inferred Slurs
« Reply #18 on: 20 May 2010, 12:10 »
I'm colorblind, and grass should be blue so I don't mistake it for a field of blood-covered spikes.
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Re: Inferred Slurs
« Reply #19 on: 22 May 2010, 06:09 »
And I am hearing impaired. Ze'ev, I suggest we take advantage of each other's disabilities and mock each other viciously for them, because it takes a gimp to know a gimp.

I want to phrase things in the most truthful way possible. Can I do that on this board when the truth hurts? Certainly there are other venues for it.
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Re: Inferred Slurs
« Reply #20 on: 22 May 2010, 11:15 »
Being 'truthful' is often cover for being offensive or misleading.

There is also the issue of whether someone means truth as in a verifiable fact or truth as in what they believe the truth to be. Or even truth as in 'To tell you the truth...' followed by their opinion.

In the second and third cases, saying something is 'truth' isn't cover for it being offensive.

In the first case, phrasing does matter, and if something is a verifiable fact, trying to phrase it inoffensively won't make it not true.
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