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minus-squareDr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down2·2 months agoJust say “retard” if you’re gonna say it. Lazily censoring it seems worse, because implications.
minus-squareQueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·2 months agoRight? I’m tired of the euphemism treadmill telling me what I can and can’t say. Especially if we are coming up with childish phrases like “unalived” I used to call myself a <transgender slur> until woke cispeople got on my case about it. Ahh… I guess it’s better than the old internet where the N-Word was your fast pass to being seen as funny and cool?
minus-squareclang@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 months agoThis has always felt very doublespeak-y to me. Sort of like a control mechanism. I don’t know anyone “unhoused” who has ever been offended at the word “homeless”. It just seems silly to me.
minus-squareQueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoIf I were the conspiratorial type, I’d say it’s about police language
minus-squaresouthsamurai@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 months agoI run into that shit with cripple. Fuck them, I’m the one on the fucking cane, I call myself what the fuck I want, and I will gladly fight about it. But, yeah, the edge lords will fuck things up
minus-squarelmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoOr go the TikTok route and say “unsmarted” like a goddamn tool.
minus-squareinsufferableninja@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoi assumed it was “rasterization”
minus-squareApytele@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·edit-23 days agodeleted by creator
Just say “retard” if you’re gonna say it. Lazily censoring it seems worse, because implications.
Right? I’m tired of the euphemism treadmill telling me what I can and can’t say. Especially if we are coming up with childish phrases like “unalived”
I used to call myself a <transgender slur> until woke cispeople got on my case about it.
Ahh… I guess it’s better than the old internet where the N-Word was your fast pass to being seen as funny and cool?
This has always felt very doublespeak-y to me. Sort of like a control mechanism.
I don’t know anyone “unhoused” who has ever been offended at the word “homeless”. It just seems silly to me.
If I were the conspiratorial type, I’d say it’s about police language
I run into that shit with cripple.
Fuck them, I’m the one on the fucking cane, I call myself what the fuck I want, and I will gladly fight about it.
But, yeah, the edge lords will fuck things up
Or go the TikTok route and say “unsmarted” like a goddamn tool.
i assumed it was “rasterization”
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