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You on the same Lemmy as I am?
Second this
with full respect, probably not lmao. :) lemmy is small but there’s a lot of diversity of activity going on.
i mean fuck it, your instance name is literally yiffit.net. best not call into question other people’s expression of lived experience without evidence 👍
I’ve seen this without the slur, but it’s still weird that people are out here trying to redefine specific, well-defined, unambiguous, basic, and universal English terms. Not as a metaphor, not even as a bit, or attempted point (luckily, as it wouldn’t have been a good one), just using a term in a way apparently nobody else ever does.
I was discussing with somebody about privilege IRL. They told me they didn’t believe the word “privilege” existed. I was like do you want to use a different word? They were like no, the word and concept just doesn’t exist.
I’m very sure this person was just an idiot and didn’t have malicious intent. But still, wow.
out of fairness, they might have had malicious intent (edit missed that this was IRL, my bad. this comment probably doesn’t apply to your situation apologies. leaving it up with this disclaimer as i think it’s valuable)
language has a lot of power. the ability to accurately describe one’s condition and identity is absolutely required in order for organization, and therefore change, to happen.
that’s why conservatives get so worked up over gender pronouns and words like “cisgender.” they are well aware that a community that is denied language to describe itself is nothing more than a set of individuals.
if you deny the word “privilege” then you deny by extension the word “unprivileged” and then you are left without a word for the millions of people lacking basic education, income, housing etc to describe themselves.
(im vaguely aware this was the plot to that one george orwell novel)
“One must live in a privileged position to believe privilege does not exist.”
— Me, just now.
yes! thank you for this analysis.
besides the casual bigotry, the wanton disregard for useful semantics is exactly what i wanted to call out as it seems especially unique to internet spaces.
I’ll be damned if I ever hear a slur on here.
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BASTARD
gasp!
slur
ITT: people telling me im lying for some reason?
literally check the modlog. people involve language used against minority groups all the time and unfortunately it gets left up for hours sometimes
edit: genuinely why are people downvoting this lol? proof
I mostly read them on here
„Why would you use it like that?“
„It made sense to me, sorry if that was wrong.“
Slur
Is how I perceive it.
Why would you think like that? No one on the internet (especially OP) would apologize for potentially being wrong smh.
Yeah, you’re probably right :)
touché
Tbh that’s been my experience as well. Either that or:
“Why would you use it like that?”
“What do you mean? I just used it the same way you did to confirm that I agree with you”
*slur*
Oh yeah, the default assumption that any reply must be disagreeing with you is exhausting
Why would you say that? I think it’s exhausting and you come here to question me! *slur*
Just kidding. Yeah, it is. Thankfully it doesn’t happen that often.
honestly it can go either way 👍
I love this poem.
thank you
slur
that’s not what that word means
yes it is
nobody uses it that way
well it’s how i use it
well why would you do that
English is my second language, thank you for the opportunity to learn and I hope you have a wonderful day
are we just going to sign every message with slur now?
slur
no that would be ridiculous
slur
Lemmy Pro Tip: After 2 replies you can usually tell if the conversation is going anywhere productive. If it’s not, then tell them as such in your 3rd reply, wish them a pleasant day, and move on with your life.
2? That’s generous of you. I give 1 chance.
Everything has happened before, everything will happen again. Shit people aren’t a fault of reddit, or facebook, or whatever will come after lemmy. Shit people will always be.
beautiful follow up poem. i concur.
This is how many conversations with my wife end
Healthy
lol, It was a joke
where’s the 36 page lobg document on linux?
the two i keep running into are “harm reduction” and “fascism”, but “tautology” had a minute in the sun last week…
this is not an invitation to share your (incorrect) opinion on these terms.
yeah we have had the conversation around harm reduction two or three times you and i lmao
carry on
i like your meme. it’s genuine art.
i know 👍 ty
Genocide
