• Cypher@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I literally had an argument with @[email protected] about this a while back where he declared retard as against sub rules but then continued to call the poster a moron. They’re the same fucking word from different time periods on the treadmill of what is politically correct.

    Either both are slurs that shouldn’t be used or both are acceptable.

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      11 days ago

      They’re the same fucking word from different time periods on the treadmill of what is politically correct.

      Either both are slurs that shouldn’t be used or both are acceptable.

      That’s not how language works, and unless you go around calling Black folk ‘colored’, you understand that in other contexts. What words are acceptable and what connotations they have change with time and usage.