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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

Growing up r***** was a pretty common phrase, that's definitely something some millenials have had problems removing from their vocabulary.

I also don't think our social comprehension of gender has finished evolving yet. So everyone alive to read this comment will eventually have to revise their understanding and look back on their cringy previous views.

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 61 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Retarded. He’s censoring the word retarded, for anyone also confused.

You can say retarded. Especially when literally referring to the word itself? No one is going to arrest you.

For the record the new offensive phrase is “sped”, because the euphemism treadmill doesn’t stop and focusing on words instead of subject matter is pointless.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You can say removed. Especially when literally referring to the word itself?

Not on lemmy.ml apparently...

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Doesn’t show removed on my end, but wouldn’t surprise me.

[-] tkohldesac@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I like the cut of your jib, Tex.

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It’s a well cut jib, methinks

[-] zzzzzzyx@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Alright drop an n bomb in a meta context and see how that goes.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago
[-] drcouzelis@lemmy.zip 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ohhhhh I thought you meant the phrase was "growing up r*****". Took me five minutes to figure out what you meant. It's just the one word, not the whole phrase. 😆

For anyone else confused like me, it's the pejorative word for a person with a mental disability.

[-] cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thanks for the explanation because I was confused too. Good example of why commas matter.

[-] livus@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago

I thought they meant "growing up r" as well. First my brain supplied me with "growing up rich".

[-] andyburke@fedia.io 7 points 7 months ago

If only I had scrolled, you woulda saved me the same time. 🤣

[-] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 30 points 7 months ago

The censoring works so well that I have no idea what you're talking about.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago

Some people just aren't brave like I am. The word they're referring to is rigatonni

[-] SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago
[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

You've just doomed us all

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Just say retarded u friggin retard.

[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Just say fucking instead of friggin, you fucking spastic.

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Fuck i really must the spastic cunt.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

u

I see where you lost the high ground in the discussion.

[-] lemmie689 3 points 7 months ago

Ideas never finish evolving, and in a grand sense nothing finishes evolving, unless you consider extinction to be the conclusion of an evolution. Nature goes on, the universe continues, there is no end point where things have reached a perfect evolution.

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Promoted from your desire to censor yourself, kids won't understand and be exasperated by my refusal to censor myself online so some website/content creator can more easily make ad money.

And no, fuck that noise, I will not bow the fucking algorithm. I will curse and speak freely.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago

I like how the punctuation failures totally change the assumed meaning of the sentence.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

Are we censoring the word racist now? We can't call it what it is?

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