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Censorship, if ever truly necessary, should be reactive not proactive. Humans simply cannot correctly foretell the possible scenarios where an otherwise unacceptable word or term needs to be written down and discussed. A million correct removals do not justify killing even one meaningful discussion. That’s the nature of free speech.
You would think that now, more than ever, we (especially we here) would understand how important that freedom is and how inherently destructive any attempt at “pre-crime” always turns out to be.
Eh, there's a few words that are perfectly fine to be auto censored because of the absolute shit that they're tied to.
If we can't have a discussion over the n word without someone coming along that's had to deal with that slur in their face having to deal with it again, then it isn't a useful conversation. See, everyone knows what word I'm talking about, no need to have it there, waiting like an antipersonnel mine to hit someone just cruising along lemmy having a good day.
There aren't many words that carry the kind of weight that one does, but they exist.