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by iterationx 4400 days ago
Let's focus on reducing the acceptable words in the English language! Take false moral high ground! Then tell everyone they are oppressive moral reprobates! If everyone feels bad about being male or white (or both!) then surely no one will notice that the true oppressor is centralized power structures! IngSoc Double Plus Good! Choco-Rations are Up Today AND I'm FEELING FINE.
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Yeah. Simpler English will help with dumbification of the populace. People can't spell already anyway. Idiocracy in the making!

Anyway, it's really pathetic that people get offended by words. Spoken language is one of the most effective tools of manipulation. If you feel bad, just because you heard the "N" word or "master" or whatever, you know what, you're weak and well-suited for one of the most ancient tools for exploitation. Men who go in jail or kill somebody, just because somebody used the right word to trigger their irrational and destructive behavior - those are weak, not manly.

Anyway, ignore the words, focus on the meaning, but, I guess, it's too hard for some! And those don't even get when you're truly offending them with phrases their simple minds cannot process - sarcasm is not for everyone!