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⌈ Secret Post #1879 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett]

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[Matilda]

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[Person of Interest]

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[Boston Public]

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[Rideback]

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[The Office (UK)/Harry Potter]

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[Inspector Lynley Mysteries]

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[Prince of Cats]

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10. [personal attack]

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[Misfits]

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[Smash]

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[Hetalia]

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[Shadow of the Colossus]

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[Dragon Age]

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[Zack Snyder]

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[Kill Bill]

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[askandroidwheatley/Wheatley (Portal 2)]

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19. [repeat]

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[TGWTG, Todd in the Shadows]

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[Sailor Moon]

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[Hyvät ja huonot uutiset]

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[MLP: FiM]

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[Once Upon a Time]

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[Katekyo Hitman Reborn!]

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[How I Met Your Mother]

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[Castle]

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[Amanda Palmer]

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[Katawa Shoujo]

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[Homestuck]

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[Evangelion]

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32. [SPOILERS for Salt and TGWTDT]

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33. [SPOILERS for Katawa Shoujo]

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34. [TRIGGER WARNING for incest]

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35. [TRIGGER WARNING for incest]

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36. [TRIGGER WARNING for child abuse]

[DC comics/DCAU]

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I understand words can shift meaning, believe me. Gay no longer means female whore, for example, but it bugs me that SJ seems intent on giving all hateful people godlike powers. If anyone, anywhere ever uses a word negatively at any point in history it is now banned from the language forever and ever. I mean, geek used to be a very hurtful insult. In my father's day, that was used to taunt and degrade a lot of people. It is still used as an insult. A group at DragonCon were called geeks and nerds by football fans while the football fans threw eggs at them. How DARE you have that word as a username? Remember, hate is more powerful than love and friendship!

Oh, I don't think that a word has to be stricken from the lexicon forever just because it was ever used at any time to hurt another person. And I do think people go overboard with the "if even one person asks you to stop using a word because it offends them, why is it ~zomg soo haaaard~ to stop using that word?"
It's just that a fairly significant group of people point out, rightly so, that the word "derp" is used as a slur against disabled people (some brought up later in the thread the macros of mentally disabled people with DERP or HERPDERP written on them), and that this usage cannot be denied simply because the word wasn't *originally* aimed at disabled people.

Again, I don't necessarily agree that this means the word is off limits forever or anything, I just think it should be recognized that there is a legitimate reason to see it as (at least in some circumstances) a slur because it has actually been used as one. I don't even think "Derpy Hooves" is even so bad, but I can see how it's questionable and why it bothers some people.

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