That is very unfortunate. I wouldn't defriend someone over something like that! I'm more "to each their own,"; you pick your words, I pick mine, free discourse is great and minds may or may not be changed by it.
In other words, people are free to complain! And I'm not going to hurl slurs at them, but I might shrug. IDK, if they can make a case for why that word made them afraid and unwelcome, I might be convinced! There are some words I don't use, after all. (Mostly racial epithets, I have yet to find any reason to want to use them.)
I don't think "ignored" is as bad as the other things on that list. You have the right to voice your opinion. You don't have the right to have everyone agree with you. And that's what makes debates interesting! :)
So yeah, I'm privileged. I don't deny that. But there are so many ways it's possible to be "privileged," I am in some and not in others. I hate how people assume that just because I have some privileges, I must have all of them. I try not to get into this stuff because it's personal, and it cheapens it to bring it into every internet debate, but yeah, my life kinda sucked too.
I do make an attempt to not be a dick, but I have yet to be convinced that slang is this huge oppressive force. Maybe that's my error. But, it's the conclusion that seemed most natural to me. I'm doing the best I can, but it's in my nature to need to understand a thing before I adopt it into my philosophy--I have trouble just taking someone's word for it.
Back to the original topic, I think "canon nazi" makes linguistic sense, because the Nazis were strict and oppressive. But canon nazis don't put people in ovens, and I find it hard to imagine anyone would seriously confuse the two. I realize it's a lighthearted application of a serious concept, but that's inevitable--the more you tell people to be serious and not laugh, the more irresistible it becomes. It's human nature that in any unfunny event, someone will push that envelope. (I've seen Holocaust/Hitler jokes, 9/11 jokes, recently dead celebrity jokes, dead baby jokes, etc.) I don't think commanding humanity as a whole to be somber is going to work. The word "nazi" is getting reabsorbed into the language (I've seen other uses, like "Christmas nazi") and I think of it kind of like language compost, breaking it down and taking nutrients from it.
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In other words, people are free to complain! And I'm not going to hurl slurs at them, but I might shrug. IDK, if they can make a case for why that word made them afraid and unwelcome, I might be convinced! There are some words I don't use, after all. (Mostly racial epithets, I have yet to find any reason to want to use them.)
I don't think "ignored" is as bad as the other things on that list. You have the right to voice your opinion. You don't have the right to have everyone agree with you. And that's what makes debates interesting! :)
So yeah, I'm privileged. I don't deny that. But there are so many ways it's possible to be "privileged," I am in some and not in others. I hate how people assume that just because I have some privileges, I must have all of them. I try not to get into this stuff because it's personal, and it cheapens it to bring it into every internet debate, but yeah, my life kinda sucked too.
I do make an attempt to not be a dick, but I have yet to be convinced that slang is this huge oppressive force. Maybe that's my error. But, it's the conclusion that seemed most natural to me. I'm doing the best I can, but it's in my nature to need to understand a thing before I adopt it into my philosophy--I have trouble just taking someone's word for it.
Back to the original topic, I think "canon nazi" makes linguistic sense, because the Nazis were strict and oppressive. But canon nazis don't put people in ovens, and I find it hard to imagine anyone would seriously confuse the two. I realize it's a lighthearted application of a serious concept, but that's inevitable--the more you tell people to be serious and not laugh, the more irresistible it becomes. It's human nature that in any unfunny event, someone will push that envelope. (I've seen Holocaust/Hitler jokes, 9/11 jokes, recently dead celebrity jokes, dead baby jokes, etc.) I don't think commanding humanity as a whole to be somber is going to work. The word "nazi" is getting reabsorbed into the language (I've seen other uses, like "Christmas nazi") and I think of it kind of like language compost, breaking it down and taking nutrients from it.