They made a post about not using 'retard' as an insult. It got caught up in a lot of discussion about whether lack of mental capacity itself is legitimate to use as an insult against people who are not mentally disabled (ie 'moron', 'idiot', etc).

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ooooh I thought the ratio in question was upvote to downvote lol. The part about mods went over my head.

[–] Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Downvotes are disabled here actually, so that's why it says 0 downvotes

[–] Theme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Umm actually you should say "downvotes are differently abled"

I'm so sorry

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 months ago

downloads have been exterminated

[–] Brickardo@feddit.nl 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

At least in Spanish, the newest "respectful" term gets eventually used as an insult. We've been like this since at least the late 80s.

[–] Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 months ago

Yep, that's called the euphemism treadmill. Today's polite euphemism is tomorrow's graphic insult.

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It happened in English too

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I personally think unhoused versus homeless sounds stupid. So I'm just going 6 months or so until the people who currently give speeches about how unhoused is the proper term start giving speeches about how offensive it is.

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe I'm on the autism spectrum but I genuinely cannot comprehend how unhoused is any different from homeless in any way, connotationally or otherwise. Is it because of the "Home is where the heart is" adage that people are arguing that they have homes but not housing? I'm so confused

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Its supposed to be 'people first' wording. If you put the person first they get healed. Thats why they changed homeless to being offensive. That was what I was told when I asked why homeless is a slur now.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Infact, retard was the "respectful" term once upon a time. Before that moron even had it's day in the sun.

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And before that, "idiot", and before that, "dumb"

[–] nature_man@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I saw that thread, there were some extremely weird and gross responses, one person wrote like 6 paragraphs on how they couldn't stop using it, with one of the reasons being they "liked the mouth feel"??? It's baffling the lengths people will go to to justify saying a slur.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 4 points 5 months ago

right! i felt like i got yeeted to a different dimension with how aggressive it all got

so now we know lemmy.com is an okay place unless you are:

mentally disabled or
a woman

in which case people will defend their rights to participate in harrasing you you with vigor! very cool