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The mental gymnastics of the .ml tankies is astounding
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I just had a comment removed for using the M-word. I replaced it with stupid, hopefully that passes the purity test. It occurred to me that dumb could easily be construed as offensive to those who are unable to speak, much more justifiably than the R-word, in my opinion.
Mentally disabled is already quite unacceptable according to some, the current cutting edge of political correctness is probably persons of/with intellectual disability. Which will probably last a couple years before we need to come up with something else.
It's eerily reminiscent of Orwellian themes of doublespeak and Newspeak. Limiting the functionality of language in order to prevent the expression of undesirable or socially disruptive thoughts.
All of this is also massively complicated by the fact that languages other than English exist. This rapid lexical treadmill that we are currently on is quite certainly discriminatory towards non-native English speakers, because they will inevitably inadvertently use outdated terminology and be judged for it, while those who are privileged enough to be close to the sources of political correctness such as they exist will have an inherent social advantage due to that.
We live in an extremely highly regarded society, congrats all around ๐
Yeah, agreed. I mean... I'm fine with no longer using the R-word to refer to people who are being stupid. I think it's silly, but I also am not trying to offend anyone unnecessarily. I don't want to be the grandpa who says "colored" and can't understand why everyone tells me I'm not allowed to say that. I'm just pointing out that the cycle of words being okay and then slowly turning into bad words you can't say anymore, maybe implies that it's not worth the huge amount of emphasis we put on making sure we're using the right words and not the wrong words, sometimes.