Comment on Basic geography

• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i will admit i miss being able to use the word around the auto shop. since i’m not around the auto shop i don’t have much opportunity anyways and i’d rather let everyone feel comfortable in the space.

  you can pry jenny from my cold dead lexicon tho

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  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That auto shop? What?

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      used to mean transmission

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• CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Actually, in the cartography community they’ve reclaimed the word and now the best practice has flipped.

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• mrnobody@reddthat.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Personally, I think there’s no real “political correctness”. Something is only offensive if you let it have that affect on you. Otherwise, it’s a bunch of assumed possible offensiveness worrying someone might get their feelings hurt.

  Now, that’s not an excuse to be a jerk to people, I’m just saying I feel it’s mostly made up as another means of coerced control.

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  • Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If words have a history of always being used in a hurtful and discriminatory way, then it’s just awful to use them. That’s also why you don’t use the n word. While it is “just” a word, why would you just use a word that hurts many people and has awful historical usages.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Something is only offensive if you let it have that affect on you.

    Laws have an effect on people whther they want them to or not.

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