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[+] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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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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