lesson learned never try to be kind on the internet
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I don’t get it
They made a post about not using ‘retard’ as an insult. It got caught up in a lot of discussion about whether lack of mental capacity itself is legitimate to use as an insult against people who are not mentally disabled (ie ‘moron’, ‘idiot’, etc).
At least in Spanish, the newest “respectful” term gets eventually used as an insult. We’ve been like this since at least the late 80s.
Yep, that’s called the euphemism treadmill. Today’s polite euphemism is tomorrow’s graphic insult.
It happened in English too
I personally think unhoused versus homeless sounds stupid. So I’m just going 6 months or so until the people who currently give speeches about how unhoused is the proper term start giving speeches about how offensive it is.
Maybe I’m on the autism spectrum but I genuinely cannot comprehend how unhoused is any different from homeless in any way, connotationally or otherwise. Is it because of the “Home is where the heart is” adage that people are arguing that they have homes but not housing? I’m so confused
Its supposed to be ‘people first’ wording. If you put the person first they get healed. Thats why they changed homeless to being offensive. That was what I was told when I asked why homeless is a slur now.
Infact, retard was the “respectful” term once upon a time. Before that moron even had it’s day in the sun.
And before that, “idiot”, and before that, “dumb”
Ooooh I thought the ratio in question was upvote to downvote lol. The part about mods went over my head.
Downvotes are disabled here actually, so that’s why it says 0 downvotes
Umm actually you should say “downvotes are differently abled”
I’m so sorry
downloads have been exterminated
I saw that thread, there were some extremely weird and gross responses, one person wrote like 6 paragraphs on how they couldn’t stop using it, with one of the reasons being they “liked the mouth feel”??? It’s baffling the lengths people will go to to justify saying a slur.
right! i felt like i got yeeted to a different dimension with how aggressive it all got
so now we know lemmy.com is an okay place unless you are:
- mentally disabled or
- a woman
in which case people will defend their rights to participate in harrasing you you with vigor! very cool
