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INTEREST: Zombie Land Saga's Lily Becomes Example in U.K Parliament Talks on Twitter Abuse

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How about unless someone is receiving DEATH threats, the government backs the hell out of it?

It's not related at all. All of the context is in the actual article.

How about unless someone is receiving DEATH threats, the government backs the hell out of it?

No, it's not? It's two members of a well-known hate group abusing their political power and connections in an attempt to repaint a term used to refer to them as a slur because they're terrified that their bigotry just might become known to the public at large. They have repeatedly lied about how the term is actually used in the process.

It's basically the same as Nazis crying about how the right way to refer to them is "alternative right" because being called Nazis hurts their feelings.

I'll preface this by saying that I do not agree with the opinions commonly shared by TERFs, I don't consider TERF to be a slur, and have only ever used the term in a descriptive way.

However, I do understand why TERFs consider "TERF" to be a slur. My understanding is that their preferred term is "gender critical", and that very few (if any?) TERFs use the term "TERF" to refer to themselves. They argue that the term "TERF" is exclusively used by non-TERFs in a derogatory way, thus it is a slur.

On-topic, TERF is not a slur; you could, I suppose, try framing it backward: radical feminists who exclude transpeople and use RFWET instead, but it’s still not a slur. Nothing about the words “trans-exclusionary”, “radical”, or even “feminist” are slurs....It is inherently factual—unflattering, to be sure, but that’s perhaps an issue with TERF policies rather than the words that make up the acronym TERF itself.

Swear to god though, how come one guy in a fursuit did a better job of calling out Ronda Rousey’s transphobia than every major wrestling news site over the entire year she was working in WWE? If you’re in wrestling journalism and Anime News Network is quicker on the uptake than you, ya might as well find a new career path

On-topic, TERF is not a slur; you could, I suppose, try framing it backward: radical feminists who exclude transpeople and use RFWET instead, but it’s still not a slur. Nothing about the words “trans-exclusionary”, “radical”, or even “feminist” are slurs. You can certainly use those words in a derogatory tone, the same way people in certain sections of the Internet fairly spit the term “feminist”, but TERF as a word is not derived from any of the derogatory origins that other slurs are—like skin color or genitalia. It is inherently factual—unflattering, to be sure, but that’s perhaps an issue with TERF policies rather than the words that make up the acronym TERF itself.

whiskeyii wrote:

On-topic, TERF is not a slur; you could, I suppose, try framing it backward: radical feminists who exclude transpeople and use RFWET instead, but it’s still not a slur. Nothing about the words “trans-exclusionary”, “radical”, or even “feminist” are slurs. You can certainly use those words in a derogatory tone, the same way people in certain sections of the Internet fairly spit the term “feminist”, but TERF as a word is not derived from any of the derogatory origins that other slurs are—like skin color or genitalia. It is inherently factual—unflattering, to be sure, but that’s perhaps an issue with TERF policies rather than the words that make up the acronym TERF itself.

To piggyback on AkumaChef's post, even if people say it's a 'factual term', it's being used differently and people are noticing. "person who cares about social justice" is a factual term, but is wordfiltered on these boards. "Trap" is also banned here, despite it being officially recognized in the industry by mangaka and professional translators. ANN has the right to censor whatever words they want, but this does show how people critically look at inherently innocuous terms and make descisions based on how they are used. More and more sites are cracking down on using the word terf as time goes on as they become more educated on its use, so don't be surprised when you get pushback for using it as it becomes more and more associated with violence towards women; especially when it's lumped in with verbs like "punch" and "kill".