I just saw an acquaintance use "👖🛝" in place of the word genocide and. like. at what point are we going to decide that this kind of self-censorship is too degrading to abide anymore.
"grape" "sewer-slide" "the panini" I feel like I'm surrounded by Rugrats who overheard the grown ups talking about the news.
I'm tired of seeing people excuse algospeak because "corporations are making us do it." Why are we all letting them do that. The Internet is real life. Get mad about it.
Oooh. . . Don't get me started on people saying "ahh" when they mean "ass". Use your big human words you whimpering fucks.
i mean. "ahh" is a big human word. Its just a black word. AAVE. The problem with that one isnt so much self censorship as it is the uncredited usage of a marginalized culture's language while treating the original usage as uncouth or stupid. Saying the only people who use that form of the word are "whimpering fucks" actually doesnt fix the problem actually. It kinda feeds back into the problem actually.
I was not aware 'ahh' was AAVE, I thought it was just sloppy self-censorship to get around Tik-Tok's garbage language filter. Should I delete this?

























