If that’s how you get off, but not encouraged in a public space. I do it all the time. I’m not saying censor yourself around folks over this one word.

i guess, so, but i don’t consider lemmy to be a public space in the same way i don’t consider a private institution a public place, there isn’t really a public place on the internet to begin with, unless you’re trying to appeal to the general public i guess.

I’m saying compared to it’s history and how it can be used, it doesn’t have much space for common talk. Queer is able to be a concept that is useful to bridge slurs. It’s able to converted into something. Fag however just had a hateful history in the internet because America.

i feel like this is a really regressive understanding of language, I mean sure the history of the word fag is bad and negative, but gay people are quite literally more socially accepted now than ever in society. Using the word fag. Especially as a queer person or in a context in which it would make sense is literally just ironic now. Wouldn’t this be a productive thing for society? Using a word which we once believed to be negative in an ironic way that so aggressively downplays it’s original meaning so heavily that people stop caring about it?

I’m talking about it completely objectively.

i mean sure, so am i, it’s just a word, it’s not going to stab you.

LGBTx communities with young folks for example are those who don’t know the value and the difficulty. It’s taken for granted. The word just shouldn’t be promoted in positive light openly, but talked about it’s history openly of talked about with those you’d like to use.

i mean maybe, but i feel like we should probably still be happy about what we’ve managed thus far, new generations aren’t going to behave the same, and they’re not going to experience the world the same, expecting literally anything else from them is unreasonable. If they do pick up fag again, and it’s not actively harming anybody anymore, what’s the problem? That seems like an even bigger win to me if anything. You’ve done so much work that a problem is no longer a problem, and is now even socially acceptable to the point of ironic humor.

eventually, you have to hand over the torch and just trust that they’ve learned best what to do.

also, it’s weird that you used lgtbx instead of lgbtq considering that’s what the q is for.

Dude why am I explaining manners and not being a bad impression on kids in private spaces/platforms.

idk great question lol.

I didn’t say lemmy, I fully agree about it all. However I am talking about in general.

then you’re being a little presumptive about the capabilities of another person, then again this is the internet.