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Is it just me? (lemmy.zip)
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[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

It's funny how innocuous stereotypes sometimes get popular like that. In ten or twenty years that stereotype will have been repeated by the current generation so much that the next generation will find it offensive.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I swear that someday the word "autistic" will become offensive

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Any word is offensive if you use it in a manner to cause offence.

A muppet is a kids puppet with a hand in it, very entertaining, but if I call you a muppet I'm saying you're all mouth and no brains.

Most insults for stupidity are archaic medical terms describing a lack of normal capacity.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but saying "lunatic" doesn't carry the same weight as the R slur. I think "autistic" may eventually carry that weight

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because people are less offended about being called crazy than deficient. That's nothing new.

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