so now I am censored and restricted from intellectual debate out of fear of oppression.
Which in my opinion is a concept far more evil.
I'm sorry that you live in such a small world that you can honestly believe that forum censorship is more evil than murder.
EDIT: And before this comes up: disagreeing in this way can be referred to as discourse. I'm not trying to censor your opinion, only saying that it's reprehensible. The distinction might be difficult to make for some.
So we're just accepting strawmen as valid arguments now? Because you just pretty overtly implied that using a word is equivalent to committing murder based on prejudice related to one use of that word.
No? I didn't say anything about using it, I said something about
censoring it. I said it was ridiculous that censoring it could be considered worse than the oppression it has, which is... the easiest way to read that statement, at least, unless it was about cultural defusal, which isn't something I was even remotely talking about and didn't even consider as a topic of conversation.
Anyway, most of the dishonest games and rhetorical bullshit were my trying to avoid outright throwing insults at the time. I was having an (unrelated and, in fact, apropos of nothing) panic attack at the time, too, which made it
way harder. Even now, though, the "basic empathy towards other human beings" things still stands, since the "i got warned because toady's triggered" shit relies entirely on a fundamental inability to see other viewpoints, which is unusually commonly the cause for this kind of thing anyway.
Never mind the joyful old tactic of "The bad thing you are drawing attention to doesn't matter because it isn't the bad thing that I am personally invested in, and people are only capable of thinking about or disapproving of one bad thing ever, and anyone who isn't paying specific and sole attention to my pet bad thing issue while agreeing with me is an evil bastard who clearly thinks that it doesn't matter compared to the bad thing that they're talking about - in fact, I bet that they think it's a good thing!"
I don't even know where this came from, since I have no idea about any other things that are being talked about here.
EDIT: where the hell did the post above "anyway" go, god damn