• s@piefed.world
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    We’re trapped on a burning planet with superstitious dictators committing holocausts in broad daylight and there are forum mods/admins who find it within themselves to stop you from advocating online to ixnay a few fascists or billionaires

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          Eh, at this point can we just agree that word doesn’t apply to people with actual disabilities? It hasn’t been used as such for decades. Maybe we just agree to only use it to refer to morons, the same way “moron” was once a medical term.

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              Are people actually hurt by its usage or is it another case of “protecting” people who don’t really mind?

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                I mean I know people hurt by it personally so I don’t use it, to each their own I guess. Surprised that’s a hot take though

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                  speaking about hot takes…. So Why are you still going on about the inconvenience of just changing words? Just learn new words and be done with it. Can’t be that hard. Kids can learn new words every day. I believe in you.

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              Seriously why are you acting like using words is so frigging hard.

              There’s so much worse shit going on in the world as is the entire point of the discussion and this is the hill your choosing to die on here? Mere inconvenience of learning to just use words?

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                There are many hills to die on, but I have standards and those standards are important. Just pick a better word next time and move on, it’s not that difficult.

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            Didn’t the words moron and imbecile follow along a similar line of etymological evolution that the r-word went through? Yet imbecile and moron are considered acceptable offensive words to use. To be honest it’s why I don’t really care that much about the r-word itself.

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      Reddit is a dumping ground of hate generated by AI eating fuel to wreck the planet further