Hateful language in DBD
Ive noticed a lot of people, especially here and on dbd twt referring to survivors as 'survs'. This feels like an intentional attempt to create a slur and makes me very uncomfortable whenever i come across a post or a stream where everyone is referring to the players as 'survs'. Ive never called killers, 'lers' nor has anyone else as far as i know. This sort of language makes me very uncomfortable and i feel like its another way some of the community wants to dehumanize the players for their own enjoyment.
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Isn't it, like, just an abbreviation?
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It's literally just that. There's a ton of abbreviations for words I consider short anyway, this is just one example out of many...
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If people shortening a longer word into a shorter word purely for the sake of expediency makes you feel uncomfortable, then I genuinely fear for you. 'Survivors' lends itself to being shortened without confusion, 'Killers' does not.
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as already said, survs is just an abbreviation and used neutrally (as in: same as killers, depending on context etc) as far as I have seen. Of course the us vs. them topics may seem like surv may be used negatively but it’s no different than killers for the other side..
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As this thread is not encouraging constructive commentary, I will be locking the thread here. While I understand the OP's dislike for the abbreviation, as others have stated, it is just a shorthand that is frequently used by players (especially for platforms with character limits on posts). It is not seen or deemed a 'slur' or inherently negative, and a post of this nature will very quickly devolve into users finding themselves breaking the Forum Rules.
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