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[+] 7 points 1 year ago* (5 children)
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    Actual definition of degenerate when referring to a person:

    "an immoral or corrupt person."

    The post here is about the goat (and associated clowns) that specialize in turning everyone they disagree with into a 'tankie' that can't possibly have a point.

    Yes, the behavior is dumb in both cases. I'd argue what you are doing is worse since your decision hinges on non sensical surface analysis of the persons vocabulary.

    I've also been called a tankie and I hate the liberal use of the word. It kind of shows just how off base your assumptions are.

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    “degenerates” as a pejorative is almost exclusively used in crypto-fascist and red-brown spaces.

    The word can be dehumanizing but it doesn't make the person a fascist like said above. My point is that the word simply isn't only used in those spaces and broad judgements based on it serve no one.

    I didn't mean to be insulting, I just called it surface level because it breaks apart on a simple statement like this:

    "Elon Musk is degenerate scum"

    The rest of the answer depends on usage statistics for the word, which we don't really have. Anecdotally, I use the word and I'm not a fascist as far as I can tell.

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