Maybe the solution is to stay off Twitter, but it's very disturbing to see the normalization of slurs happening in real time on there. White people saying the n-word with approval, the return of saying "gay" as a pejorative, lots of casual racism against Indian men, using the r-slur to describe something seen as stupid. I don't know whether this is a larger cultural lurch to the right, or whether it's mostly attributed to Musk's elimination of quality control and monitors on the platform.

  • Angel [any]
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    9 days ago

    One thing I can tell you is that people are a lot more willing to say slurs if they sense that they won't get criticized or penalized for it, and I'm speaking from experience. With Musk loosening rules on Twitter to a point where "cis" is considered more of a slur there than the n-word is, this is not a shocking development.

    • velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml
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      9 days ago

      Some of the folks I hate the most on YouTube are masteroogway, BeastChild and manlikeissac. These adults are unhinged, edgy and rascist assholes with the brain of a pre-teen child.