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You on the same Lemmy as I am?
Lemmy Pro Tip: After 2 replies you can usually tell if the conversation is going anywhere productive. If it’s not, then tell them as such in your 3rd reply, wish them a pleasant day, and move on with your life.
I’ll be damned if I ever hear a slur on here.
ITT: people telling me im lying for some reason?
literally check the modlog. people involve language used against minority groups all the time and unfortunately it gets left up for hours sometimes
edit: genuinely why are people downvoting this lol? proof
This is how many conversations with my wife end
Healthy
I’ve seen this without the slur, but it’s still weird that people are out here trying to redefine specific, well-defined, unambiguous, basic, and universal English terms. Not as a metaphor, not even as a bit, or attempted point (luckily, as it wouldn’t have been a good one), just using a term in a way apparently nobody else ever does.
yes! thank you for this analysis.
besides the casual bigotry, the wanton disregard for useful semantics is exactly what i wanted to call out as it seems especially unique to internet spaces.
I was discussing with somebody about privilege IRL. They told me they didn’t believe the word “privilege” existed. I was like do you want to use a different word? They were like no, the word and concept just doesn’t exist.
I’m very sure this person was just an idiot and didn’t have malicious intent. But still, wow.
out of fairness, they might have had malicious intent (edit missed that this was IRL, my bad. this comment probably doesn’t apply to your situation apologies. leaving it up with this disclaimer as i think it’s valuable)
language has a lot of power. the ability to accurately describe one’s condition and identity is absolutely required in order for organization, and therefore change, to happen.
that’s why conservatives get so worked up over gender pronouns and words like “cisgender.” they are well aware that a community that is denied language to describe itself is nothing more than a set of individuals.
if you deny the word “privilege” then you deny by extension the word “unprivileged” and then you are left without a word for the millions of people lacking basic education, income, housing etc to describe themselves.
(im vaguely aware this was the plot to that one george orwell novel)
„Why would you use it like that?“
„It made sense to me, sorry if that was wrong.“
Slur
Is how I perceive it.
honestly it can go either way 👍
Why would you think like that? No one on the internet (especially OP) would apologize for potentially being wrong smh.
the two i keep running into are “harm reduction” and “fascism”, but “tautology” had a minute in the sun last week…
this is not an invitation to share your (incorrect) opinion on these terms.
yeah we have had the conversation around harm reduction two or three times you and i lmao
carry on
i like your meme. it’s genuine art.
Genocide