lemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read" - eviltoast
  • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    The push to get people to stop saying it Streisand Effected the word into a slur. There’s no reason it shouldn’t have just gone the way of “moron,” except people turning it into a bigger problem than it ever had any right being.

    The entirety of your final paragraph reads like a guilt by association fallacy.

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      5 months ago

      The push to get people to stop saying it Streisand Effected the word into a slur. There’s no reason it shouldn’t have just gone the way of "moron,

      Sure. But it didn’t. And now it is a slur. And no matter how much you’d like to defend your version of the word, that isn’t what it means. Sitting in your own bubble and insisting on your own version of language history doesn’t change the meaning of the word to the evolving world.