Comment on obesity
TheEntity@lemmy.world 1 month agoProbably no, not in this specific form, that being said I don’t want to compare one tragedy to another. There are lots of disgusting parts of the human history, and that’s certainly one of them.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
The only equivalent I can think of starts with k and is a slur for Jewish people, and it’s much less commonly heard.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ironically enough, that word was coined by Jewish people who had been in the US for generations to describe newly-arrived Jews from Eastern Europe. Still offensive but somewhat different from the n-word.
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 1 month ago
What about something related to the indigenous peoples of the Americas?
Nutteman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We killed them so fast and displaced the rest that we forgot all the major slurs
june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
“Savages”, "Redskins”, “Squaw”, and so on.
Some news headlines even refer to the second one as “the R-word”:
CNN: The terrible R-word that football needed to lose
Politico: The R-Word Is Even Worse Than You Think
These are extremely harmful words with hundreds of years of genocide behind them. I imagine the only reason they aren’t censored like the N-word is is because Native Americans make up a proportionally smaller population due to the effectiveness of the genocide, and because the reservation system is in contrast to racial integration as with American black people in so much as it limits interactions between them and racist whites who would overuse a dehumanizing phrase to the same extent.