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I'll stick with what the licensed professionals say on the subject, thanks. Which, for the record, is that taboo art can be an amazing coping mechanism. It's not for everyone, no, and it can make some people worse. But it's the disregard for those it helps that pisses me off.

And miss me with the "but you shouldn't post it it might hurt someone else!" I'm sorry to tell you this but your triggers are not my problem. I make sure I tag everything, spoiler things, post them in appropriate places. That's my responsibility and I do it. Past that, it's up to others to curate their spaces. I can't do it for them. Also saying people shouldn't post it online is denying them a sense of community.

That said.

You potentially being mortified because you accidentally said a nazi word is really beside the point of this post? In fact - and I suggest this as gently as possible - it's a somewhat self-centered response, imho? I wasn't blogging about how disturbing it is to say something embarrassing, I was blogging about how disturbing it is to see fascist ideology getting mainstreamed.

And it is the *ideology* that I find concerning, more than simply the language. Yeah "degenerates" is an incredibly loaded word, and people are well within their rights to direct a hard side-eye (at the least) toward anyone using it. But lbr, even if you could somehow wave a magic wand and erase the historical context that would still be a pretty vicious thing to call someone. Implying or outright stating that someone is subhuman is fascist rhetoric even absent specific fascist terminology. People are in the notes responding with things like "it's not just a synonym for freaks," and okay, but......hot take, you shouldn't be calling anyone a freak either! If you scrub "degenerate" out of your vocabulary but replace it with "freak" used in exactly the same way - other, lesser, outside the boundaries of """normal""" and thus automatically loathsome and/or dangerous - that's not better! If someone is doing bad things, say that. Don't use rhetoric that positions "normal" as "moral." In the first place it's shady as hell ("normal" is a subjective judgment frequently dictated by whoever has the most social power) and in the second place it's not even accurate, plenty of horrible behavior is perfectly normal and societally acceptable.

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