Hypothetically, if you had to pay for every item you've pirated, how much do you estimate that would've costed? (At original price, no fines or anything like that)

throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 4 days ago

Hypothetically, if you had to pay for every item you've pirated, how much do you estimate that would've costed? (At original price, no fines or anything like that)

throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works · 2 days ago

Nice try, glowie

I wouldn’t use that term, it has a… problematic history:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie

Etymology

From glow +‎ -ie. Originated by Terry Davis, who stated in a 2017 video that “CIA [N-Slur] glow in the dark”, implying that they are conspicuous. The term “glowie” would become popular on the 4chan /pol/ board around 2019.

golden_zealot@lemmy.ml · edit-2 9 hours ago

I don’t agree with the sentiment that a word used by one guy next to a slur they also used imparts a derogatory meaning to the word as well. If this were the case, we would have a problem with a lot more words.

If someone said “F-slurs shine like a rainbow”, that doesn’t make the words shine or rainbow derogatory.

Furthermore with the contextual usage of glowie considered - if it is derogatory, then its usage shows that its derogatory to members of the CIA rather than people of color.

However if people continue to cite glowie as a slur for people of color, then people might start to use it in that context, and then it becomes a slur for people of color.

Therefore I would recommend not citing the use of the word in this way because all it can do is eventually add a derogatory connotation that doesn’t currently exist outside of being next to a slur during one usage or the creation of it.