lesson learned never try to be kind on the internet
I don’t get it
They made a post about not using ‘retard’ as an insult. It got caught up in a lot of discussion about whether lack of mental capacity itself is legitimate to use as an insult against people who are not mentally disabled (ie ‘moron’, ‘idiot’, etc).
Ooooh I thought the ratio in question was upvote to downvote lol. The part about mods went over my head.
At least in Spanish, the newest “respectful” term gets eventually used as an insult. We’ve been like this since at least the late 80s.
Yep, that’s called the euphemism treadmill. Today’s polite euphemism is tomorrow’s graphic insult.
I saw that thread, there were some extremely weird and gross responses, one person wrote like 6 paragraphs on how they couldn’t stop using it, with one of the reasons being they “liked the mouth feel”??? It’s baffling the lengths people will go to to justify saying a slur.
right! i felt like i got yeeted to a different dimension with how aggressive it all got
so now we know lemmy.com is an okay place unless you are:
- mentally disabled or
- a woman
in which case people will defend their rights to participate in harrasing you you with vigor! very cool
