Oh come on. Extremists gonna extreme. Some will try to make a bunch of words offensive, the others will keep fighting for their right to use these words. The vast majority of the rest of people will just keep living their lives and just use whatever’s the most appropriate word at a given time with the language evolving. It used not to be considered really offensive to insult people with gay slurs when I was in high school. Languages evolve with their times, and that’s perfectly fine.
I predict we won’t be able to properly express how someone looks in 5 years, because all words will be offensive.
White. Fat. Bald. Skinny. Women/Man. Probably all offensive soon.
folkrav@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Kcap@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My guess is it’s probably not extremists per se, but rather corporations that are scared of offending anyone and being the focus of the internet’s bad or uproar of the day. I will say though, at my last company, the younger generation was pushing all this stuff super hard. While I agree with plenty of the general purpose stuff, I’m like, can’t we just do our jobs and not sit in meetings all day about what our job is supposed to be?
folkrav@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You don’t have to look too far, honestly. It’s advertising/marketing driven, most of the time. They have a brand and image to maintain, and anything that slightly deviates from it tends to get shut down really quickly. The extremists I was talking about are the ones driving that uproar you mentioned. Most people don’t give enough of a flying fuck to do anything about any of it past the Facebook argument they’ll get into anyway.
These changes do tend to be driven by younger generations, that’s just how it is… I remember Gen Xers complaining about us Millenials wanting to change the world and being very difficult to manage, when we were joining the workforce lol
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I bet you’re someone whose nose almost imperceptibly points downward.
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
The sad part is that can actually be seen as discriminatory
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
- Anti-semite
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Excuse me, it’s high calorie individual.
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Well right now calling you an oversensitive lying baby is still a thing. Figuratively no one’s asking for this from corporations
eating3645@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Soon? It’s already offensive, you bigot!
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Actually the bigot community no longer considers the word ‘bigot’ appropriate.
mean_bean279@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t know where you live, or what reality you’re choosing to live in, but that’s just such a bad take. I live in liberal ass California right in the thick of it. I have plenty of black and white (among others) friends, fat friends, and gay friends. The only thing I’ve ever had some things around word choice is when someone identifies as a different gender. Even then I’ve called people by their wrong gender and they’ve politely corrected me and I change it.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Same. The other day I mistakenly told a trans woman early in her transition “thank you sir” as a reflex and all that happened was she gently said “I’m not a sir” and we moved on.