nzmaa@lemy.lol to Greentext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · edit-22 days agoBait or rtaration. Call it.lemy.lolimagemessage-square253linkfedilinkarrow-up11Karrow-down139cross-posted to: 4chan@lemmy.world
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minus-squareQueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 days 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 days 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 days agoIf I were the conspiratorial type, I’d say it’s about police language
minus-squaresouthsamurai@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 days 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
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