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What happened here? (sh.itjust.works)
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This was the top post when I checked Lemmy this morning.. Mod commented to mark the post NSFW, even though it wasn't NSFW as far as I could tell. Post was locked and had a ton of deleted comments.

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[–] 2 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Nope. I asked you, because you brought it up in a discussion. Don't be an impolite, self-disqualifying jerk, please.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago

    The euphemism treadmill, as far as I understand, goes like this;

    1. Science comes up with a term for something or some one.
    2. People start to use that term as a slur.
    3. Science comes up with a new term because the old term has been tainted.
    4. People add the new term to the list of slurs. 3 Science faithfully obliges by thinking up a new term. Surely, no one will turn this into a slur!
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  • [–] 0 points 2 hours ago

    Oh boy, have I got news for you, 'jerk' is an ableist slur akin to 'spaz'.

    jerk(n.1)

1550s, "stroke of a whip," from jerk (v.1). Sense of "sudden sharp pull or twist" is by 1570s. Meaning "involuntary spasmodic movement of limbs or features" recorded from 1805.
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