Comment on Not promoting hate speech but what happened to all the slights/slurs/vulgarity from like the 20s and 40s. There were so many. Now it seems well I can only think of three?

• SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not really.

  What I mean is what if I started calling all Lemmy users lemmos and meant no offense, the word caught on too.

  But then Lemmy users hated it. So people stop using it.

  Is that a slur or not.

  Theres a lot of offensive words today that have a history like that. Where they were often descriptive words and not attacking words by intent of the user.

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  • cheers_queers@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think power structures come into play too. Example: a plantation owner calling his slaves the n-word. Language used to dehumanize a group is always a slur.

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    • Zagam@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Guess why its called a Master Bedroom? I do renovations and build houses. I’m trying to use primary bedroom or primary suite more.

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      • yoevli@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        From what I can find online, it seems like it’s unlikely that particular term was originally meant to refer to slave masters and it moreso referred to the head of household.

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What if the dehumanizing language is used to elevate a group above you humans?

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• Today@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How else do we warn others about the assholes?

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