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minus-squareRodeo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 years agoIt’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.
minus-squareHM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years agoI swear that someday the word “autistic” will become offensive
minus-squareLemmysMum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-23 years agoAny 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.
minus-squareHM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years agoYeah, but saying “lunatic” doesn’t carry the same weight as the R slur. I think “autistic” may eventually carry that weight
minus-squareLemmysMum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 years agoBecause people are less offended about being called crazy than deficient. That’s nothing new.
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.
I swear that someday the word “autistic” will become offensive
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.
Yeah, but saying “lunatic” doesn’t carry the same weight as the R slur. I think “autistic” may eventually carry that weight
Because people are less offended about being called crazy than deficient. That’s nothing new.