nzmaa@lemy.lol to Greentext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · edit-22 months agoBait or rtaration. Call it.lemy.lolimagemessage-square215linkfedilinkarrow-up1981arrow-down137cross-posted to: 4chan@lemmy.world
arrow-up1944arrow-down1imageBait or rtaration. Call it.lemy.lolnzmaa@lemy.lol to Greentext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square215linkfedilinkcross-posted to: 4chan@lemmy.world
minus-squareDr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down1·2 months agoJust say “retard” if you’re gonna say it. Lazily censoring it seems worse, because implications.
minus-squareQueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 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-up7·2 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-squareinsufferableninja@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoi assumed it was “rasterization”
minus-squareApytele@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·edit-210 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 assumed it was “rasterization”
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