sam0345 comments on Rationality Lessons Learned from Irrational Adventures in Romance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: sam0345 12 October 2011 04:26:33AM -2 points [-]

Marginalizing or diminishing people due to the socially enforced classes they belong to is not at all the same thing as "showing subtle signs of thinking thoughts you disagree with".

When someone uses "gay" as a curse word, he is not "marginalizing blah blah blah". He is inadvertently revealing that he thinks homosexuality is a bad thing - or inadvertently revealing that he thinks the frequent change of euphemism is an indication that most people think it is a bad thing. You are punishing him for his beliefs, not for his actions. He is not intentionally attacking anyone.

Comment author: Jack 12 October 2011 07:37:58AM *  -1 points [-]

He is not intentionally attacking anyone.

No one is saying he is. In fact, the context of this entire thread is someone saying explicitly that no one is saying he is.

Jandila:

if there's one thing I don't need more of in my life it's arguing with a population comprised mostly of wealthy, white Libertarian-esque cisgendered/heterosexual men whether or not you can be racist/sexist/whatever without intentionally being a bigot.

When people say "that shit is gay" gay people feel marginalized and diminished. They feel hurt. Whether or not it was intentional (and certainly it often is).

Comment author: pedanterrific 12 October 2011 04:42:43AM *  1 point [-]

Or he could be advertently revealing that fact.