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  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldIs "retard" a slur?
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    5 days ago

    So, actually in the south the term was ‘retargeted’ by the (sub) - urban elite to mean yeoman farmers who worked the fields and had suntan on their necks.

    I respect the original term, but the colloquial has reverted to ‘ignorant, racist southerner’, for good or ill.

    If you have a better term for it I’m all ears, but it’s not like there isn’t a need for a category given their behavior.


  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldIs "retard" a slur?
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    They changed the underlying medical term, ‘mental retardation’ to ‘developmentally disabled’ in a form of lingual whack-a-mole since the old term was being used as an insult.

    Once it lost its meaning as a short form of the medical term, it became a slur, much like we don’t call black people the n-word anymore.










  • Got banned for saying Russia was committing war crimes in Ukraine.

    As a comment to a AP story showing evidence of Russians committing war crimes in Ukraine.

    Apparently that was ‘bigotry’.

    This was 2 weeks after getting banned for threatening violence. For posting a NBC news article reporting on the Trump shooting. They reversed that on appeal, but I’m not appealing the second one, they’re just broken now.

    Basically anyone can report anything and they don’t have anyone to review it so it’s easy censorship. Yet somehow the subs that actually threaten violence have no problems.