• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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      3 years ago

      It’s funny how innocuous stereotypes sometimes get popular like that. In ten or twenty years that stereotype will have been repeated by the current generation so much that the next generation will find it offensive.

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          3 years ago

          Any word is offensive if you use it in a manner to cause offence.

          A muppet is a kids puppet with a hand in it, very entertaining, but if I call you a muppet I’m saying you’re all mouth and no brains.

          Most insults for stupidity are archaic medical terms describing a lack of normal capacity.