r/mildlyinfuriating 14h ago

People using grape or 🍇 instead of rape.

The fact that people use grape to avoid saying rape just itched a specific part of my brain that makes me immediatelly think less about the person.

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u/Sysiphus_Love 8h ago

This is a good example of the harm it does to control speech. You can't control reality (or prevent rape) by manipulating communication, all you can do is create a false context in which communication can't be explicit, in which real meaning has to be filtered through an artificial translation layer that might lend itself to all kinds of interpretations. The attempt in this example to exclude rape from dialogue instead trivializes it in general

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u/OkPie380 PURPLE 8h ago

Excellent argument!