rosewater-sailor:

When someone steps forward and says, “Your usage of this word is hurtful and you need to examine your speech,” the correct path here would be to examine your speech, not to continue railing against them because you can’t accept the fact that maybe, just maybe, you are wrong.

I know it’s hard to be wrong. It’s hard to swallow your pride and admit that you made a mistake - I get that. But when someone informs you that you are wrong, and you continue to repeat those words or that action, you are going from making a forgivable error to being malicious. There is no excuse for consciously deciding to harm someone. If you want to go around using other people’s very existence as slurs and jokes, acting like a child who doesn’t know any better, well… You’re not a child anymore, you’re not on the playground, and this kind of discourse is no longer acceptable or excusable.

Do not turn it around on the person and try to say they’re too sensitive - you are not sensitive enough. And don’t try to shirk responsibility when we call you on it. You are at fault here, REPEAT, YOU ARE AT FAULT HERE. When you defend your ~right~ to say these things, you’re essentially saying that your ability to hurt people is more important to you than stopping and thinking about the things you say and who you say them to, which is downright disgusting.

Your right to be an asshole is not, and never will be, more important than someone else’s right to go about their lives without being used as your punchline.

and when you do stop being an asshole, don’t expect people to thank you for your heroic actions. it’s called being an adult. no congratulations necessary. 

(via robot-heart-politics)