I 100% disagree. If I say “go back to your station, you cogswallow” that could be offensive. You should be offended by that. If I say “haha, you cogswallow, that’s an amazing painting” its no longer offensive. I am showing appreciation of your painting.
What does cogswallow mean? I have no idea, I just made it up.
I don’t know any other languages but if someone is insulting me in French or praising me in French I could tell the difference based on context and body language. Did they just catch me stealing an apple? Did they just watch a presentation I did with a smile on their face?
Words are used to express an emotion. The emotion is what matters. Back decades ago retard wasn’t an offensive term, it was used to describe people with a specific condition. It was used because “imbecile” and “invalid” were seen as offensive. Yes, some people have severely limited mental capabilities. Sometimes combined with limited physical capabilities. We need a word to express I mean them. That could be “flogtrough”. I could offend you with that word or I could praise you. I just made it up.
I will say in text communication like commonly used on the internet it’s hard to express context so people rely on previous context of usage of that word. If a person has been exposed to cogswallow or flogtrough previously, first get out of my brain, but seriously that impacts their interpretation of the word relative to given context.
Any term is offensive if it’s used with malicious intent.
But people forget about the malicious intent part a lot.
But does that “malicious intent” apply to staged comedy?
I would think the term used is offensive, not the contrived intent.
I 100% disagree. If I say “go back to your station, you cogswallow” that could be offensive. You should be offended by that. If I say “haha, you cogswallow, that’s an amazing painting” its no longer offensive. I am showing appreciation of your painting.
What does cogswallow mean? I have no idea, I just made it up.
I don’t know any other languages but if someone is insulting me in French or praising me in French I could tell the difference based on context and body language. Did they just catch me stealing an apple? Did they just watch a presentation I did with a smile on their face?
Words are used to express an emotion. The emotion is what matters. Back decades ago retard wasn’t an offensive term, it was used to describe people with a specific condition. It was used because “imbecile” and “invalid” were seen as offensive. Yes, some people have severely limited mental capabilities. Sometimes combined with limited physical capabilities. We need a word to express I mean them. That could be “flogtrough”. I could offend you with that word or I could praise you. I just made it up.
I will say in text communication like commonly used on the internet it’s hard to express context so people rely on previous context of usage of that word. If a person has been exposed to cogswallow or flogtrough previously, first get out of my brain, but seriously that impacts their interpretation of the word relative to given context.
No, that’s what I was meaning. People ignoring intent is an issue.
When offensive viewpoints are used in comedy it’s almost always with the intent that you laugh at the person with the offensive viewpoint.