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 (DIR) Post #B5ReR0PUpZu9vkiGfo by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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       If I do nothing else in this life, I want to impress upon as many people as I can the importance of words. I know they're easy to throw around... "they're just words", some will say...But words have meaning, history, baggage, context, *consequences* :frog_sus:While I don't believe magic exists in our world, I get why many magic systems are based on words, whether that be incantations, curses, true names, or whatever else...Whether they be multisyllabic monstrosities from the depths of a thesaurus or internet slang, words have real weight to them, real effects on real people :cat_frown: Using words is a responsibility, and the more we forget that, the more harm they can cause :jellyfish_sad: #Musings :boosts_ok:
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ReR20ksXIotb9XO4 by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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       (note: this post is talking about *all* words and slurs are but an example)For instance, referring to Japanese (the language or the people) as JP is totally ok, but throw an a in the middle and you've suddenly tacked on dehumanisation, the US rounding up its own citizens into concentration camps (and stripping them of land and property), and justification for mass slaughter of Japanese civilians :cat_facepalm: Another that I learned only in the last 6 or 7 years was "boy"... at first, just a childish word someone might use on someone else to discredit or infantilise them, but a white man saying it to a black man? It's one of those "just use the slur you basically used instead of this bullshit" situations with all of the baggage of centuries of racism and slavery along for the ride :bear_shrug: