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> For example, it seems like we can't say "mother" anymore in medical settings.

Well, that's entirely up to you and me isn't it?

I think what bothers me is not so much the word police (ignore them) but everyone else that allow them to set the agenda.

I talk the way I've talked my entire life and I don't care what people think about it.



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I'm well aware of dumb shit that I've done in my life and I try to learn from it and improve.

The difference I suppose is that I don't think that words I use are dumb shit.

Someone wants to be the moral authoritarian over the language you use? Only if you let them. And why would you do that?


Dumb shit as defined by whom, though? People one doesn't agree with? Why should one stop doing it, then?




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