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submitted 1 week ago by Bad@jlai.lu to c/comics@lemmy.ml

[orange] Okay sure, we did massacre the economy and make ourselves look untrustworthy and unstable, but...

[zoom on orange grinning] We can now say slurs at work without facing consequences

[newspaper clipping] Corporate America embraces a new era of conservatism under Donald Trump. Bankers and financiers say that Trump’s victory has empowered those who felt they had to self-censor or change their language to avoid offending younger colleagues, women, minorities or disabled people. “I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say [r-slur] and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.”

[orange, celebrating] Worth it! I see this as an absolute win!

https://thebad.website/comic/legalized_slurs

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[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

This is fucking ridiculous. I spent my teen years on 4chan. I used far worse slurs than those amongst my peers when I was a young shithead.

Do you want to know how much trouble I have ever had curtailing my language at work? In customer facing jobs it took me a month or two to get used to not cursing casually. As far as slurs? I have always, even at my most reprehensible, understood that they are not acceptable to utter in public.

These are supposedly grown ass adults who have been in the workforce for many many years. If they have a problem cursing more than is generally acceptable, I can understand. If you have a problem with saying slurs or cusses targeting people, that is entirely a you problem. A problem of respect towards other human beings.

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