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WhiskeyGrinder

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21. The OP describes what happened, without sugar coating. And then you added a bunch of slurs -- slurs that are, one could

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #19)

Fri Dec 26, 2025, 12:28 PM

4 hrs ago

argue, sugar-coated with asterisks. Why use them?

I remember as a kid being in the county courthouse and a Chinese man who owned the big laundry in the city having water thrown at him because he tried to drink in the "Whites Only" water fountain. The good ol' boys hollering at him to "You ain't no white man, you're just a "chink"

The words have to be remembered otherwise people will forget and the slurs will come back as sports teams etc.

We all know the words. They're still used every day to hurt and oppress. Why do *you* use them?

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Because they describe what they heard instead being sugar coated. I remember when the LBGT's were being slured as"QUEER" LiberalArkie 4 hrs ago #19

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