I agree with most of that (though your stance against censure seems at odds with banning people), but I side more with Sock on this issue of hate speech.
"Retard" can be an excellent verb but is always a shitty noun.
Transgressive art and humour must have a place somewhere and I expect a lot of the people using terms like retard, spaz, and other bigoted words and phrases, think it's edgy transgressive and ironic. I'd even go so far as to accept that sometimes it genuinely is.
It can be hard to tell the difference between real bigots and those behaving like bigots for the sake of their art/work/performance/whatever. I lean towards the idea that bigots reveal themselves in their acts of bigotry - their use or permissiveness of bigoted language for example.
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brb shitting dahlias, Sat 27 Jun 2020, 0:38,
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Being callaed a "Retard" really sucks for any disabled child, growing up.
It's akin to a child with questions about their sexality constandly hearing "gay" used as a pejoritive in internet chats...like game rooms... "that was SO gay LOL". Imagine the cumulative effect. Gay="bad".
Like being called "nigger" because your skin is a different colour, or "faggot" for kids with geender issues.
It's hate speech. "We"- b3ta - should have zero tolerace for it.
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damn right, only a fucking retard would call a retard a retard, it's obvious hate speech
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 27 Jun 2020, 10:07,
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