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It's not a word that can, or should be, "reclaimed".

Dunking on chuds/libs/etc. is awesome, but it doesn't need that specific framing.

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[-] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Do you credit being being bullied with improving your life and making you a better person? Did you thank your bully? Has it been your experience that others thank you for improving their lives by bullying them? If you believe that bullying is effective at correcting antisocial behavior, then why wouldn't parents, teachers, and peers have a duty to bully children? If you just believe in an abstract sense that it's good to do bad things to bad people, then why would it be wrong to sexually assault people who have sexually assaulted others?

Political education is a tool to correct harmful reactionary behavior. Revolutionary violence is a tool to remove reactionaries' ability to cause harm. If what you're doing isn't changing harmful behavior, and it's not reducing their ability to cause harm, then it's worth considering what you actually are accomplishing with how you choose to spend your time. Reinforcing an association of cruelty with pleasure in your own mind harms you more than it helps anyone else.

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