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[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 1 month ago

Just say "retard" if you're gonna say it. Lazily censoring it seems worse, because implications.

[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

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 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?

[-] clang@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

If I were the conspiratorial type, I'd say it's about police language

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

i assumed it was "rasterization"

[-] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 month ago

Or go the TikTok route and say "unsmarted" like a goddamn tool.

[-] Apytele@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have a decent amount of patients that label could apply to and I don't like seeing it used at all. Literally just a few weeks ago I was consoling a patient who was angrily crying because they perceived someone had used it to refer to them. I'm unsure if it was reality based; they do hallucinate and I didn't personally witness it but its far from impossible and they were absolutely distraught. Using it pejoratively AND censoring it means you knew it was fucked up and did it anyway.

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