• Gigagoblin
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    6 months ago

    there’s the initial sting, yeah, but it’ll subside once my brain remembers the context. when used in a bigoted way, the feeling sticks for a while.

    • die444die@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      That’s along the lines of what I expected. I’m always just curious how our brains work, so thank you.

      I always try to find an alternative to the word regardless of the context because it’s not like it’s hard to do and I’d rather not cause that reaction in anyone if possible.

      It sucks that we keep doing the same thing over and over as a society as this is not the first word ruined by being used in the exact same manner as a way to bully and harass and make fun of people.

      You’d think some day we’d learn that we can actually teach people not to be shitty and we don’t have to accept this behavior from people at all.