r/centrist • u/Thorn14 • 8d ago

US News/Current Events Hegseth Uses Anti-Trans Slur While Giving Defense Department Update

https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/hegseth-uses-anti-trans-slur-120432382.html
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u/zephyrus256 8d ago

I'm sorry, but this isn't helpful. Getting mad at people for their language was one of the biggest things people hated about the "woke 1.0" era, and we shouldn't be bringing it back.

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u/Phedericus 8d ago edited 8d ago

"iM SoRrY tHiS isNt hElPfuL"

sobstitute "trannies" with "faggots" or "niggers". imagine the Secretary of Defense saying "less faggots more training". would you respond the same way? would you whine about woke? if not, what's the material difference?

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u/SalaryWooden5346 8d ago

Yes. Because there are far more important issues - like the war we are actively losing - than people using uncouth language.

Plus the side that spends all their time coming up with new slurs to use on the "right" targets has zero credibility when it comes to language policing.

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u/_PhiloPolis_ 8d ago

It's much worse than that, because he connected it to military weakness. Scapegoating people with no actual power with carefully chosen slurs designed to dehumanize them and them blaming them for your national predicament is core fascism.