[ SECRET POST #2896 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2896 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, historically all of our words for "stupid" people come back to insults for the mentally disabled– stupid, idiot, moron, these were all once clinical labels for people with disabilities. I don't like people using the word "retarded" because it still has very distinct reference to people who are mentally impaired so THAT particular objection I can understand, but people who climb back in history far enough to find stupid, idiot, lame, dumb, etc offensive are in for a long battle. there are problematic origins for a shit-ton of words that are used in a relatively benign way today, going back to their origins so you can be the best, most sensitive tumblr user around (lbr, this is what the real intent is behind 'correcting' someone on these issues) is making a mountain out of a molehill. worse yet, a molehill that's dusty and long-since abandoned.

tl;dr, let's just stop using obvious shit like "retarded" and "gay," and stop nitpicking over words that are too old to have any link to their previous definitions anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, with this. The English language changes. Meanings change. And if that word that used to be offensive has become so eroded that we have to be reminded that, hey, that used to be offensive, why bother? Why insist on clinging to the offensive definition?

Hysterical has an unhappy history, yes. But these days, men, boys, dogs, cats and jokes can be hysterical. Because language changes, damn it. And words can have more than one definition. Have these people never seen a dictionary? Open one. You'll find that many words have multiple definitions. Hell, the word "set" has dozens, if not hundreds, of definitions.

/grumbling

[(Anonymous)]

I recently got to know that "dope" used to mean stupid too back in the day (lol yes, I did not know that), and today, it usually just means that the thing is cool/stylish. Words meanings change and people still want to cling to their past definitions? Pff, ridiculous, tbh.