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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That’s what I have a hard time with. Antivaxxers? Trump supporters? Callous billionaires? They all seem like fair game to me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Antivaxxers? Trump supporters? Callous billionaires?

Science deniers and right wingers has never been on the right side of the history, so these you mentioned will be remembered as the idiots they are, and Billionaires will continue to exist but will be remembered but not in the Star Trek name dropping Elon Musk kind of way, but in the way we remember other idiotic and callous billionares from a century ago.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In the case of previous groups, it's usually persecuted and marginalized groups. So I don't think that fits.

I'm already seeing terms like "stupid", "dumb", "crazy" and other terms to refer to conditions people didn't choose, especially mental ones, being used less and frowned upon occasionally. So maybe "crazy/insane" if we actually recognize it wildly as an issue or treat it.

Online? I'm seeing a lot more hate and memes against furries cropping up that I hope goes away. Not that that's new, but I think it's shifting towards them since it's become unacceptable in most circles to denigrate sexual and gender identities.

Otherwise I think the question is: Who is society denigrating that is both a marginalized group and not actively/actually harmful?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The thing with stupid/crazy is inevitably a euphemism treadmill more than any meaningful shift. We still need to deal with people who make absolutely terrible decisions in ways that are both shockingly unexpected and predictably exploitable. Calling those people "wild" instead of the r-word won't change that they dislocated their skeleton doing some obviously pointless stunt for momentary clout.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Furries is a good one. There's definitely a lot of hate. "My coworker's daughter said they were talking about putting litter boxes in the classrooms!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Weird fetishes like foot and diapers perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Think about the words you and other people use and what they actually mean. Are you using a word that refers to a certain group of people who are part of some marginalised group? “Gay” used to be a very common insult, particularly in South Park. What about “lame”, “dumb”, “tard”, etc.