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[-] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 25 points 5 months ago

why the quotation marks on "tortured"?

[-] FancyManacles@piefed.world 14 points 5 months ago

In this context it appears they are using them to show they are quoting the use of the word and not editorializing by calling it what it is.

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