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"Why yes, my overpriced fake leather nostolgiabait shoes that have nothing in it, dont come in wide, and gives people pla tar fasciitis is muxh better than the other overpriced fake leather hipsterbait shoe!!!!"

And then kids will literally screech in the damn store if they dont get their shitty nike shoe, becayse its about the NAME of the BRAND!!!

FUCK OFF SNEAKERHEADS YOU ALL SUCK!!!

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[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

The issue isn’t the hisotry of the word so much as the current implications.

I agree with this, but you don't.

I don’t feel bad at the prospect on losing insults with a history of bigotry behind them

So which is it? Does historical etymology matter or does current use and meaning? Again, the vast majority of people do not find "Stupid" to be a bigoted phrase associated bigotry. The current, descriptivist definition in how it's actually used is not bigoted so you criticized it on it's history. Then you say the history doesn't matter but how it's used?

[-] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Both matter and both indicate it shouldn’t be used but the way it’s used is more important. It’s not descriptivist lol, I’m referring to the way it’s currently used and historically

[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not descriptivist

Updooted on hooxbear, never thought I'd see the day of the prescriptivists

[-] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I didn’t say I’m descriptivist. I said my statement wasn’t descriptivist

[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

descriptivism = good, correct

prescriptivism = bad, the opposite of correct

I agree your statement isn't descriptivist, it's prescriptivist, which is why it's not correct. Hope that clears things up.

[-] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

My statement wasn’t prescriptivist. It was descriptivist, I just wrote wrong

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