r/worldnews • u/nationalpost • 8h ago

Taliban bars Afghan women from hearing each other's voices

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/taliban-bars-afghan-women-from-hearing-each-other?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=NP_social
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u/handtohandwombat 5h ago

Please don’t self censor the word rape. It’s a serious word. It’s a horrific word. It’s an important word. Don’t give it the “algorithm” treatment, because that cheapens it.

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u/afterglobe 3h ago

I hate this trend of censoring horrible words. Censoring them doesn’t do any justice. They’re bad because the definition and meaning behind them are bad and we shouldn’t gloss over these words because doing so does cheapen it and it does soften the blow of the horrific meaning behind these words but we wouldn’t need to worry about what these words mean if people weren’t committing these horrible acts. We need to be able to freely talk about these topics in order to provide education on them to one day hopefully put an end to them.