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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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cheers_queers@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    OK, thsts fair. Its something I heard, not researched myself. Still, fuck the patriarchy.
    
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    arararagi@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Just accept you were wrong, in Brazil there was a company that didn’t want to use “black Friday” because they didn’t find a source saying it wasn’t racist.
    
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Steve@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
What if the dehumanizing language is used to elevate a group above you humans?

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