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    Dictionaries are - by definition - descriptive. It is not their duty to judge what goes into them. They merely collected terms used by people and explain what they mean.

    Demanding to remove information from a dictionary, because you do not like what it expresses or the people who use those terms, is the very definition of censorship.

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      20 hours ago

      Dictionaries are - by definition - descriptive. It is not their duty to judge what goes into them. They merely collected terms used by people and explain what they mean.

      Demanding to remove information from a dictionary, because you do not like what it expresses or the people who use those terms, is the very definition of censorship.

      Aha! Who defined that? Big Dictionary, that’s who.

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      23 hours ago

      Dictionaries are - by definition - descriptive. It is not their duty to judge what goes into them. They merely collected terms used by people and explain what they mean.

      You would get banned off a conservative subreddit for saying this.

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        Censorship isn’t when we get rid of woke books like the dictionary dummy, censorship is when I don’t get to say a slur without anyone getting mad at me.

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      Also a very ham handed attempt to manipulate culture.

      Or perhaps people who have had their culture manipulated running face first in to something outside their sphere and getting angry that it doesn’t comport with their manipulated understanding.