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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?

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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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    Zagam@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    OK, thsts fair. Its something I heard, not researched myself. Still, fuck the patriarchy.
    
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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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