isthingoneventhis

joined 2 years ago
[–] isthingoneventhis 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, that's quite literally not what I said :/ I don't think anyone really has much business saying those words but what defines derogatory and slur are, as you are showing, highly up to personal interpretation, and two different words to define as such as they can potentially have widely different meanings for the person trying to grasp the topic. I think many people outside of this thread or of an older generation would have a hard, or harder time, parsing why one isn't okay to say "because it's always been that way" or whatever. That line that defines a word is entirely a cultural phenomenon that happens "real time", so maybe instead of saying it's a hot take and assuming everyone has the same cultural understanding and knowledge as you, maybe elaborate to inform others.

Because, from what it seems, there are people in this thread that don't quite "get it".

[–] isthingoneventhis 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I wish they could do it with RDR so we could just fucking finish the game for them. Fuck

[–] isthingoneventhis 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's so fucking wild that Germany just ends up getting used as a scapegoat, so we can blame someone else in the history books, and gloss over one's own country's eugenics programs.

[–] isthingoneventhis 1 points 1 year ago

I don't use either words, especially the latter so shrug, just don't know of a better way to explain it because I think it mainly depends where you've grown up in the US (how you view the words).

[–] isthingoneventhis 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ehhhhhhhh idk if it is a slur so more as it is derogatory. Whether or not that makes it a slur maybe is up to your own interpretation. I've never heard it used outside of referencing the football team, even having grown up around multiple reservations so idk if it's really "in use" the same way 'gypsy' is for example.

[–] isthingoneventhis 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

"red necks" is usually referring to a specific lot of folk, whereas the original context (of what this is poking at) "referred" of an entire group of people, so saying "caucasians" is more 1:1.

[–] isthingoneventhis 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh goddamnit, are dissection fuckwads too? I absolutely love their stuff and it took me a good while to stop listening to burzum after I found out he was a shitbag u. u

[–] isthingoneventhis 4 points 1 year ago

It also depends on state legislature I believe. There was a customer that came up to me to tell me our signage was incorrectly detailing the price pr. oz or the product oz. (can't remember which now) and I never quite understood why he cared so much. But apparently businesses can get fined or dinged per incorrect signage they have so?

[–] isthingoneventhis 4 points 1 year ago

You can say they operate on a different wavelength/frequency xD

[–] isthingoneventhis 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He's basically our "generations" Nixon at this point it seems.

[–] isthingoneventhis 3 points 1 year ago

Every time I see things like this it's just like one more piece of straw to the camel's back xD I really should get tested ...

view more: ‹ prev next ›