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Erebea

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  • Birthday 08/16/1995

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  1. What? I'm not acting surprised. You really are not listening to what I am saying. Sometimes they could. Many people in my "circle" use the word "pooplord." I thought I made it quite clear, or at least implied, that I do not find saying these things okay in public chat, only in your circle. Also, you are generalizing, somewhat like these "hateful people" you so clearly dislike. Why would you quote an ad hominem? Do you really think that helps your case in any way? If so, I'm sorry to inform you that it does the opposite. I doubt this "George Carlin" fellow had any real idea what he was talking about, and hope that he was not trying to be taken seriously. Yes, that is one of the reasons why this is bad. You might be catching on. I think I'm done here. You have proven that you will not be moved by any of my reasoning no matter what, as evidence by your still prevalent insinuation that certain words are offensive and racist/homophobic no matter what despite the fact that I already disproved this. People who use words that you don't like away from the public do not contribute badly to the community, by the way.
  2. This is untrue. Facebook just had to pay a fine of 250 000 euros for censoring accounts that were from news reporters reporting about homosexual sex behaviour. They can only mute things that are reasonable; independent of whether they own or not own the medium. (Otherwise radio/television/internet at all broadcasts could also be censored as someone owns the ether & the antennas). Facebook is a social networking website -a very large one at that- RuneScape is a simple MMO. I do not think something that would work against Facebook would against Jagex. Facebook is any thing but private.
  3. I don't know what made you get that impression, but no, that is not what I mean. This is not a justification, it is an explanation of linguistics. I do not act as if it's some crazy coincidence, the person indeed chose that word, whatever reason they chose it for. The reason they chose it, however, does not matter, as the person made sure to remove the typical meaning of the word and use it as what is most likely an empty insult. The word may have been cherry-picked because it was deemed offensive by the masses, but as I said that does not matter. You can call someone a blanket and make up an offensive definition for it, it's entirely possible if the circle agrees on it. You are again just assuming a certain word couldn't possibly be offensive just as you are assuming that a certain word couldn't possibly NOT be offensive. This is not as if they are making up a definition and telling every one to use it, they made a definition and proposed it to their circle (likely subconsciously) and by the look of how some clan chats are, they have agreed (likely subconsciously, again) on that definition. There really is nothing more to it. That's fine, if they do not agree with it and it is their property, then so be it. But if they do agree, then so be it; a clan chat is the property of it's owner and those with authority over it. While they do technically have every right to censor us, since it's their property, they also equally have the right to deal with the backlash of doing such things. One such backlash possibly ending in them losing tons and tons of money. They have the right to lose that money, and that is what will happen should they enforce such things (I'm not saying they are right now, by the way.) No one is forcing their definition on Jagex (Well, maybe except those moms), Jagex is forcing that definition on us.
  4. You are quite a staunch prescriptivist. As Yoko Kurama stated, words mean different things in different context, and with different intention. Language is descriptive, not prescriptive; that is to say, if a cricle (in this case, his clan chat) agrees that a certain word (in this case the "homophobic F-word") means something that is not offensive, or is even meaningless, then it is fine. The circle has agreed on a definition for this word. You are merely forcing your definition of the word onto them, as Joe would be doing if he stubbornly chose to be offended. No, it does not matter what meaning the majority of society has put onto this word, whether it has history or not. The fact is, in this circle (the clan), it does not mean what you believe (and want) it to mean, so there is no problem. Old (kind of) convo, I know, but I just felt like getting that out there.
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