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So, hey guys. Lauren here. Happy to see you. I was locked out of my account today because something of mine was reported for hate speech. The only thing like that was a tweet where I, a gay person, called myself the f-slur as a joke.
So now we have to have a talk.
So now we have to have a talk.
I don't know why Twitter let me back into my account. I'm half expecting them to lock it again. They didn't even make me delete whatever the post was, but I did that one anyway. I'm not suspended either.
The main reason the lockout was asking bad as it was is that it required a text message code verification, and I no longer have the phone number that was linked to this account.
Whoever had the bright idea to report a queer person for reclaiming a term that was used to justify not just vaguely oppressing them but literally physically harming them is, with no stretch of the mind, either the most credulous wokescold or the most condescending white knight.
To be honest it's probably both.
But that's a conversation those kinds of people wish they could comprehend: reclamation.
Things you might hear: even if it's reclaimed it hurts others, this word isn't ready to be reclaimed, living generations are still hurt by this, etc.
Things you might hear: even if it's reclaimed it hurts others, this word isn't ready to be reclaimed, living generations are still hurt by this, etc.
But you have to for once listen to how you sound when you say these things. Apply literally any of this to the one word we all understand members of that group can say. I don't even have to use the word or name the demographic really, because you intuitively understand.
In case you're missing how you're condescending, think it through: in your infinite wisdom, when exactly do you think in the history of black oppression and struggle in America we turned an invisible corner and it suddenly became okay for black people to say the n-word?
If you can't give me a date then you'll have to concede and focus on my next point: the n-word is STILL used to harm black people, as nebulous as that usage of "harm" is.
All slurs work that way. Think of one and then apply the previous logic. It works for all of them. There is no invisible corner, there is no right time, and some words will, for as long as we remain inside this culture, be hurtful in at least one context.
There's another syllogistic justification you might have given for reporting that word: I'm a lesbian, or more to the point, a girl. That word is a slur for men, right? So how could a woman justify using it?
The easy answer is that actually women get called that word, too. We don't talk about it but it happens.
But here's the hard answer.
But here's the hard answer.
Sure, that's a word for men and I'm a woman. But you have to ask yourself this: did my bullies know that?
And once you answer that question you will find you are, to borrow a detestable phrase, erasing my lived experience.
And once you answer that question you will find you are, to borrow a detestable phrase, erasing my lived experience.
This isn't the first time this has happened, but only now was I significantly annoyed to the point if writing a discourse thread.
So there you go.
So there you go.
[Of course the other possibility is this was a bad faith attempt to get me suspended, but what am I gonna do, try to reach those people? Pass.]
There are two correct responses to this thread:
-mucho texto
-yes mommy
-mucho texto
-yes mommy
