These people don't seem to understand that they'll always be offended. They'll never get rid of all the words that offend them. Because to them, anything used as a euphemism for something that offends them is permanently tainted. So they get the words banned. Then people just use a different euphemism. So that gets banned too. Rinse and repeat forever. The more words you ban because they were tainted by euphemism, the more words people will adopt as euphemisms. Because people yearn to say naughty things. And you can't fix that, no matter how many words you ban.
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02 Feb 2016 19:36
u/Namrok
in v/programming
These people don't seem to understand that they'll always be offended. They'll never get rid of all the words that offend them. Because to them, anything used as a euphemism for something that offends them is permanently tainted. So they get the words banned. Then people just use a different euphemism. So that gets banned too. Rinse and repeat forever. The more words you ban because they were tainted by euphemism, the more words people will adopt as euphemisms. Because people yearn to say naughty things. And you can't fix that, no matter how many words you ban.