Submitted 1 day ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
So legit, racism is the reason we don’t have as many slurs.
There used to be so many because you could be racist against anything! Italians have big noses, greeks are sweaty, Catholics are cultists, etc.
The racists realized they were too divided, so they invented whiteness. That guy isn’t German, he’s white. Now he is on our team and he can help us hate Brown people. That guy isn’t French, he’s white! Here fellow white friend, hold this noose.
They didn’t invent racism in the’50s
This is all head canon and I don’t feel like looking it up, but they didn’t invent racism, they just invented whiteness.
That’s why Irish people were discriminated (and genocided) against until someone in the 20th century. Now Irish are white. People made a huge deal about JFK being a Catholic president because he wasn’t “one of them.” Now Catholics are indistinguishable from other white crowds. They speak with one voice (in their minds, not a real generalization).
Jews were on their way to whiteness and then Trump happened in 2016 and the old conspiracy theories became relevant again, and now they’re back to being separate.
Ok so here’s my plan: We pretend to be racists so we can tell other racists that brown and black people are also white now, so everybody in the world is on the same team.
You son of a bitch! It’s genius!
I tried to stop using slurs, particularly the identity based ones.
My family is pretty liberal. Despite that i had a couple of words that i grew up hearing and didn’t realize that they meant until i was an adult. When you know better you do better.
To jew someone down when negotiating a price was one. It was just a word and i didn’t understand it until i thought about spelling it and realized. Yes, I’m dumb.
I work with kids and i often call them squirrels, monkeys, octopus, big dog, etc. i mean it as endearing and didn’t realize that it could be offensive, especially monkey racially.
My grandma worked at a convenience store in very racially mixed, very low income area. She referred to all of the kids as porch monkeys. I thought nothing of it but now realize it can be racially offensive. In her defense, it was a time when kids were sent outside morning to evening and often gathered on the porches of a free homes.
When getting ripped off or a bad deal, that’s being gyped. Thats against gypsies. I learned that one way late in life.
A coworker got jipped/gyped by a gyp, and now he hates them with a passion. I told him it’s his own fault. He wanted cheaper exchange rate than bank or currency exchange offered, so agreed to buy currency at a discount in an alley. They put a good bill on top and bottom and rest was paper cut to size. LOL
Wow, this is my first time learning this. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it written so I assumed it was spelled “jipped” and never made the connection.
I learnt recently that even the word g**** is a slur itself. Apparently it came from people thinking they came from Egypt. Their preferred name is Roma.
There are so many songs that refer to gypsy. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to sing along or not.
I never thought of it as lazy, just kids that gather and maybe cause a little mischief, especially during school breaks.
I didn’t realize nigrig was (really fuckin obviously) racist until way late in life because the people I heard use it weren’t outwardly racist and pronounced it like “ne-grigged”
Somewhere along the way that became southern engineering. My mom lived in Florida for awhile so it was a good dig at both the locals and the duct tape crowd -though i grew up repairing everything with duct tape and bailing wire. My husband is an engineer - right tool for the job guy. I’m like, "pass me that mallet and a wire hanger.)
Which three?
My theory is that universal public education was less than a generation ago in most places, printing books was still expensive, and forget movie cameras and audio recording devices. You really had to be sure of the stuff you wanted to record before you recorded it in those days, in any medium, and you needed some money to be able to do it. As a result, a lot of the content we see nowadays that documents how average people talked and behaved was never written down or filmed or whatever.
So people probably didn’t really say “what in the Sam Hill…???” they probably said “what the fuck!” You just don’t know it because every ten year old didn’t have a 4k video camera in their pocket ready to roll on every bullshit that everyone did.
Well i like this sight but you can google most of em. Stuff against mexicans, latinos, italians, jews, arabs, black people, some white people, women, gays, …would you like me to continue?
Oh shit I thought you meant things like bunkum or balderdash lmao
My grandpa and grandma have one for every race/creed/color/nationality/religion and so on. I ask because it kind of seems like we are sliding backwards to everyone getting labeled a slur or slight.
People like that didn’t disappear, they were rightfully shamed in to shutting up. They’ve become emboldened with one of their own “in charge”.
But don’t we have lots of insults for other categories of people? People call people soyboys, incels, tankies, fashy, bible thumper, nepo babies or basement dweller.
Aren’t those just the modern version of “jocks” and “limeys” (I went for those because I’m Scottish and British, you can mentally fill in the alternatives…)
It’s goal was what we see today. It mobilized the left to become the language police to everyday people since most never cared about this. They might say something was R worded but never had actual prejudice or ill will against someone that was mentally disabled. This create a huge wedge that let the right capitalize on to gain more power. The left has been led around by their collar for decades. It’s effective
Most people realized that terms they had been using were viewed as offensive to someone because of the wildly increased communication capacity of the internet. Aside from the majority not wanting to be a dick to someone else insulting someone tends to cause trouble for the offender as well. So in purely selfish terms it was easier to just not say the things that would get you in trouble.
Most slang terms don’t last.
Can the dumber ones pass more quickly, please?
Totes mid, fr fr. Not fetch.
I can think of quite a few. I presume I know the three you are talking about.
Also we’re classifying slurs as words specifically used with the intent of attacking someone right.
Not just a word people are offended by no matter the intent historically.
Aren’t all slurs attacking something or someone you disagree with?
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.
How else do we warn others about the assholes?
Not promoting hate speech
Why not?
Because I am not republican or the orange face in charge.
Are you sure? It’s odd to feel the need to tell us what you aren’t doing & who you aren’t.
It’s like you think we’re all assholes who will assume & claim these things about you. Maybe you know lemmy too well.
DBT@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Check the young republicans chat (or whatever they’re called) chat that leaked yesterday. I’m sure you’ll find plenty in there.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s different. That’s just pure hatred. South park nailed it with the episode where the kids have a kangaroo court because they were saying a gay slur but had no clue it was derogatory to gay people.
Aeao@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Remind me of the old 4-Chan rule.
“Op is always f****t”
Which isn’t an attack on gay people. It’s fine to be gay, and the original poster is ALWAYS gay. It’s the rule.
BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
And when they played superhero and Cartman was The Coon