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I think they mean it is in the dictionary as meaning idiotic person, not just a disabled person.
Presence in a dictionary doesn't mean it's not hateful though.
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I don't agree with the way you get your point across but I support your right to get your point across this way.
I do not. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance If you let people use their freedom of speech to be anti-free-speech we will end up with a society that does not have this freedom. This is the logic on why licenses like the GPL were created, restrict some freedoms in order to keep the rest.
Uh, since we’re talking about intolerance... you should be careful how you wield Popper, you might even realize you’ve become your own enemy
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> Even though retard is in the dictionary and a widely accepted term by many people. All curse words are in the dictionary. Dictionaries are for looking up meaning, not moral arbiters. What are you on about?
That ain't the issue here. Many Discords use this word, but they don't get banned. Why is WSB different?
>Why is WSB different?
Because they annoy the "rich and powerful".
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Language isn't about beating people over the head about "mis-using" words, it's about conveying meaning. https://www.thoughtco.com/descriptivism-language-term-169044... I'm going to make an argument for linguistic descriptivism. I've never once thought, in the WSB subreddit, someone calling another an "autist" or a "retard" was ever intended to harm or disrespect people with those literal issues. It's a niche audienc…
„Retard“ has evolved and is universally regarded as an insult these days. Denying this entirely obvious fact is rather hard to square with your claim of being a linguist. The science tends to take a more descriptive approach, and to acknowledge the changing nature of language.
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Wait you actually think that when people are banned they simply just "go away"? Vanish in to thin air? Problem solved?
The way bans on reddit have tended to work is that by dispersing the group, there's an additional barrier created to stop the spread of the idea. This has happened with fatpeoplehate, the trump reddit, and with the red pill reddit among others. Its not just a group of people of a similar knowledge level and similar ideas coming together, it is also new users happening across the subreddit and deciding to take part. T…
i dont think banning the trump subreddit dispersed the group
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#666Looks like we have one group of billionaires defending another, as per usual.
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So calling someone R*** is not allowed but calling them shit-for-brains is, though the intended meaning is pretty much the same.
Except that "retard" is using people with a genuine genetic disorder as a stick to hit other people with.
Then you won't be able to accomplish anything as there's 8 billion ways to interpret anything.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#668Discord would claim its “hateful and discriminatory content” for anything in the fucked up reality we are currently living in. For instance, if you call someone retarded and a mod doesn't step in, that is considered hateful. Even though retard is in the dictionary and a widely accepted term by many people. Then saying that only retards buy the shit hedgefunds are peddling would also be considered discriminatory. I'm…
The discord was terribly moderated long ago. Apparently nothing changed but maybe a few more rules and auto mutes.
I don’t get offended by the ways people move their mouth or words they substitute for what they say.
If you have been around a racist, you will learn all the secret terms they use or not so secret. Go ahead and look up slang terms for light or dark skinned people in other languages.
Discord just so happened to enforce their rules at a very opportunistic time.
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#669This is really exciting, feels like open standards, independent internet is going to continue getting extreme motivation to expand and establish, with private "freedom of speech" censorship by for-profit platforms.
We're going to see more fragmentation, and growth of closed platforms perceived by users as "slightly less evil" such as telegram vs watsapp. This may also motivate the return to truly open internet ideals of the past.
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There wouldn't be anything wrong with that. There'd be a lot right with it, honestly - I would be trumpeting it as a clear victory of the little guy over snobby funds who don't think anyone else can understand finance. But what's happening right now is almost certainly a pump and dump with a short squeeze as a facade. I've seen a lot of commenters who seem to be grievously misled about the actual mechanics of a short…
> short sellers will be forced to buy all their stock at market price on Friday. Isn’t that what it means when someone is naked short?
No.
Naked shorting is when you sell the underlying stock without borrowing it first. You have 2-3 days from transaction to settlement (depending on the market), so you can enter a transaction at T and then only locate borrow at T+2. Obviously, you're running the risk that you can't find borrow in time.
In most cases, however, you short by checking for available borrow first, and _then_ shorting.