along with the strong censoring that has occurred on reddit throughout the years, they have now removed r/all from the app and while using a desktop/laptop browser. instead of being able to stumble upon new subreddits you never knew existed, it wants to curate what you’re allowed to see
Does one really have to use the word “retard” to make a community diverse and interesting though?
There are 2 broad categories of social contract. “Everything which is not forbidden is allowed”, and “Everything which is not allowed is forbidden”. Most modern societies hew to the former.
Demanding a justification for use of a word is the latter. Demanding a justification for it’s ban is the former.
“Does one really have to ban the use of the word “retard” to make a community diverse and interesting?” is a more reasonable question. And since you just used the word, you should be against it’s blanket ban.
The hard truth of it is we can’t reduce the social contract down to mechanistic rules. It fails at both allowing reasonable speech and stopping unreasonable people. You can’t encode “don’t be a jerk” into rules, it takes judgement to see if someone is being disruptive to a community.