Memes of Production

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An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of the “ML” influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. This is a place for undogmatic shitposting and memes from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.

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Be a decent person.
No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, zionism/nazism, and so on.

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

It might not be the most pressing issue, but it is one of the ones we have the most direct control over changing. And it's fucking easy to do.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

What I mean is that the vast majority of people using that slang in modern times aren't associating it in the way you're implying. The words virtually have no meaning in those contexts other than, guys = general term for any person present / pussy = being a coward. I get the root of it being sexist, but changing decades of slang when it isn't actually that insulting is how we annoyed everyone. Marc Maron's Panicked special covers this topic pretty well, I feel.