• @PugJesusOP
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    -316 hours 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.

    • @Cypher
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      415 hours ago

      So moron is acceptable now because all the people impacted by the discrimination are dead, so we just need to wait for the retards to die off before we can use the word again?

      The same group of people and behaviours are/were described by both words.

      But we’ve been over this and confirmed we do not and will not see eye to eye on this.

      • [email protected]
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        412 hours ago

        Dude, it’s the euphemism treadmill. You exercise your mind while making other people more comfortable to be around you. Your complaint has existed for hundreds of years, and will only lead to poorer social connectivity. Just hop on and put on some tunes