You use lots of ableist language. Without that I would like your post better.

The logic was to trigger people, which will obviously work as soon as you give trolls any kind of time/attention.

Using hate speech/profanities/obscenities is neither liberal or progressive. Am I wrong?

You’re not wrong. As to why, there are a couple of things going on, but at the very least he’s confusing different meanings of “liberally”.

“Liberally” can mean ‘accepting others, even if they’re very different to me’ and ‘a form of government in which there’s a democratic republic that coexists with capitalism’. It also is an adverb similar to ‘plentifully’ or ‘abundantly’.

Explain this dumbfuck’s logic to me?

So when he uses an “obscene word a lot”, he’s indeed “using it liberally”, but in the sense of ‘plenty’. He’s not magically jumping from ‘plenty’ to ‘accepting others’ or ‘a particular form of government’. Notice that ‘accepting others’ and the democratic bit in liberalism are many times what progressives strive for (although there are some progressives who would defend the capitalist part as well).

So his logic is straight up not valid.

Dafuq crack are you smoking bro?

Either he’s trolling you or he’s functionally illiterate. It’s also possible he’s literate (and IQ smart), but is so indoctrinated that invalid logic becomes magically valid from his perspective. Lastly, it’s possible he messed up (as humans so often do!). But based on my interpretation of what you two were up to, and my own experience on the internet, I think he’s trolling.

That doesn’t sound like logic at all. It sounds like there wasn’t an argument made at all, just a belief statement. In that case, the best you can do is ask “why?” Or just leave the conversation. Or troll back.

Not sure what is meant by progressive, but using a word liberally is not “liberal” in the same sense as in “liberalism”. Some words have different meanings depending on context, but that doesn’t mean you can confuse the two.

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My guess, aside from the strange word usage, is that they think using slurs casually takes their power away. It’s a pretty common belief…I guess people realize the obviously true fact that those words are bad not because of any natural law but actually because of social factors and then just conclude the problem is the people hurt by them. That leads them to put the burden of solving this problem on the targets of that language, since “they’re just words”. If you come at it from that angle, I can see how you’d land on the idea that the way to go is to do whatever you can to desensitize everyone to all words with power so everyone can see that they’re just words.

It should go without saying, but even if this is what they meant, it’s still absurd and incorrect. And while I’m sure some do land on it by following a similar line of thinking to what I just said, I’m confident even more land on it out of convenience: it lets them defend the shitty thing they wanted to do anyway.

You can’t expect logic a guy who gets the meaning of “liberally” wrong.

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

First, to be sure I understand, did you just copy the exact citation while adding only some capitalisation? Having the exact wording may help understanding what their logical point was supposed to be.

Let me add that playing with the capitalisation to make the person’s speech sound stupid make it seem like you are just looking for support from people who agree with you rather than actually understanding what they were trying to say.

Using hate speech/profanities/obscenities is neither liberal or progressive.

That depends on what one means by liberal and progressive. Maybe you are following the very american trend to call leftism in general “liberalism”, and your opponent isn’t.

Free speech is one of the most important individual freedoms. Putting individual freedoms above other considerations is the core of liberalism.

The right to slur can also be seen as progressive in the sense that it opposes a conservative puritanism.

The guy messaged me back, and said I hate african americans and gays, that’s why I am intolerant of his hate speech. Said I will never be as “liberal, progressive and inclusive as he is”, told me to get my “biases and prejudice in check” and also told me to “check my privilege”. Guy’s off the deep end.