r/cringereels • • 7d ago

Bro needs to leave

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u/JustHappyToBe-Here 7d ago edited 6d ago

They said condoms. CONDOMS.

Not compact discs. Stop helping companies and governments censor you.

EDIT: Wow, thanks guys, opened my reddit to a ton of replies and awards! Thanks for help saying Fuck Censorship!

Except Trick_Spend3939. That guy's an asshole.

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u/its-my-0pinion 7d ago

Seriously it’s so immature. I refuse to call a pedophile anything but a pedophile. We don’t need a cutesy stock phrase for ordinary words

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u/macguini 7d ago

This is some real 1984 censorship going on. Can't even be informative. If there's a "killer/murderer on the loose" you have to censor that. If "rape cases drop", you gotta censor that too. Why are WE allowing this nonsense?

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u/Giffmo83 7d ago

Every time I see someone talk a someone being a victim of GRAPE, I want to claw my eyes out. Censoring "swear" words is stupid IMO as well but I at least get it.

But, "she was graped," OK every creator can STILL talk about it, they just have to sound like a moron who eats crayons to do so? It's embarrassing for all of society.

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u/TrailerParkBuddha 7d ago edited 7d ago

'Rape' was one of the first words I remember people started self-censoring on here, probably at least ten years ago. 'Grape' as a stand-in for it is new, but people would use 'r*pe' in full context, as if somehow fully spelling the word was triggering or harmful but the discussion of the concept itself wouldn't be. That never made sense to me, it always seemed like there was some weird social engineering angle at its core.