• Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 days ago

    My grandpa and grandma have one for every race/creed/color/nationality/religion and so on. I ask because it kind of seems like we are sliding backwards to everyone getting labeled a slur or slight.

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      9 days ago

      People like that didn’t disappear, they were rightfully shamed in to shutting up. They’ve become emboldened with one of their own “in charge”.

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      9 days ago

      But don’t we have lots of insults for other categories of people? People call people soyboys, incels, tankies, fashy, bible thumper, nepo babies or basement dweller.

      Aren’t those just the modern version of “jocks” and “limeys” (I went for those because I’m Scottish and British, you can mentally fill in the alternatives…)