Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey @rasmansa @Jd196560Davis there are times in pedagogy where mentioning it is (I would say) highly defensible (he would say definitively the right call). I also worry the erasure of a use-mention distinction is giving the word more power in a way that benefits racists and hurts targets of slur uses. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 23, 2022

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey @rasmansa @Jd196560Davis It's certainly the word I want to say least, and when it comes to *using* it as opposed to *mentioning* it, there is no other word I am more invested or equally invested in maintaining a taboo around. Wrt mentions, I'd rather not mention it myself but also agree with Kennedy that — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 23, 2022

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@and_furiouser If mentioning though not using it will result in punishment by administrators, as in the case that prompted my Tweet, that should be clear. Or if not, that should be clear. At many institutions the rule is not in fact clear. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 23, 2022