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wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 <transgender slur> 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?

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  • clang@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i assumed it was “rasterization”

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• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a decent among of patients that label could apply to and I don’t like seeing it used at all. 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, but 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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