Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
You don't have to do the reporting.
But claim it's offensive and that idea will catch on.
This just seems like the wrong way to go about approaching it.

I'm speaking up about how it might be offensive because I want people to realise why it might be upsetting to others, and stop doing it. Especially if they're doing it because they just haven't realised the implications.

Not because I want them to get banned because I said the thing they are doing is offensive.

And if the "idea catches on" that it's offensive? That probably means it is, and the people who report them for it probably would have done so regardless of my opinion on it.

Should people who are saying really offensive things (not specificially this debate) be allowed to continue because nobody wants to tell them it's offensive?

It's so easy to find other words to use in this situation. Something that isn't repurposing a word with another meaning.



That said, I agree that there are appropriate contexts for "cancerous" as a descriptive term, where something is having a negative effect equivalent to what a cancer has on a body.

"O10S is cancerous" is not one of those appropriate contexts.