ext_9705 ([identity profile] a-white-rain.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] salinea 2010-01-06 11:21 pm (UTC)

I don't use the word Nazi outside issues where it's directly relevant or when I think it's appropriate indirectly (Nazis and Hitler do prove the danger of hate speech). I don't recall ever doing so, but I may have. I hate the way the term is casually thrown around in casual conversation and I loathe the way it's misused in political issues.

However, I'd never tell anyone who I knew was Jewish or Roma not to say it (and would apologize if they told me they were). Others who were targeted like LGTB people... Like what [livejournal.com profile] nextian said. It feels different. I'm a LGBT person, but I don't feel targeted by this language as a bisexual person.

Also, while I know it's probably impossible to create a perfectly safe space for people, I really try and make it so that it is.

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