The word "faggot" on reddit gets site-wide deleted which means even saying it in the UK subs where people will know the meaning it would get deleted. Yes it's happened and that's fucking moronic.

It'd be like banning Spaniards from their own subs for saying "Tiene negro gato ".

[+] Guy_Fieris_Hair -9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

We speak the same fucking language. Your metafore of Spanish and negro is irrelevant. You guys seriously run around, on what is an AMERICAN platform and think that the word of choice for a cigarette, a smoke, a stogey, is "faggot"? Not fag, but faggot? That is the word you want to use? Even though you have many other choices of words, that is it? And you are surprised?

I remember elementary school when we laughed about fag meaning a cigarette. Then I turned 8.

No but like seriously, I guess maybe I am missing some perspective. You guys just like use it in commonplace? Like, "Hey Benedict, I'm gonna go suck on this faggot over here" or "Hey Charles, it's time for my fag break"

[–] sotolf 2 points 2 years ago

/c/shitamericanssay

[–] lanolinoil 1 points 2 years ago

It's a Chinese platform though..... What?

You need to sit and think about that less than 5% of humans are Americans and while our culture has been exported to a lot more than that, those people don't live as or where you do and aren't beholden to your cultural morays and taboos.

Think about it -- 95% of people -- Zoom out and really let that sink in. Watch some other cultures' exports and the weight of the cultural robes you wear will become clear over time.