• magnetosphere
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    111 months ago

    That’s what I have a hard time with. Antivaxxers? Trump supporters? Callous billionaires? They all seem like fair game to me.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      911 months ago

      Antivaxxers? Trump supporters? Callous billionaires?

      Science deniers and right wingers has never been on the right side of the history, so these you mentioned will be remembered as the idiots they are, and Billionaires will continue to exist but will be remembered but not in the Star Trek name dropping Elon Musk kind of way, but in the way we remember other idiotic and callous billionares from a century ago.

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      711 months ago

      In the case of previous groups, it’s usually persecuted and marginalized groups. So I don’t think that fits.

      I’m already seeing terms like “stupid”, “dumb”, “crazy” and other terms to refer to conditions people didn’t choose, especially mental ones, being used less and frowned upon occasionally. So maybe “crazy/insane” if we actually recognize it wildly as an issue or treat it.

      Online? I’m seeing a lot more hate and memes against furries cropping up that I hope goes away. Not that that’s new, but I think it’s shifting towards them since it’s become unacceptable in most circles to denigrate sexual and gender identities.

      Otherwise I think the question is: Who is society denigrating that is both a marginalized group and not actively/actually harmful?

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        311 months ago

        Furries is a good one. There’s definitely a lot of hate. “My coworker’s daughter said they were talking about putting litter boxes in the classrooms!”