I want to take back ‘Retard’. Because I want it to apply to things that are infuriatingly stupid, instead of it being used as a derogatory term towards special needs people.

      • Wilker@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        to add to that, think of the following: why do a lot of people understand the word “you” as the standard neutral second-person pronoun for the english lexicon? why do a lot of people understand “selfie” as the main word to refer to a self-portrait photo typically made with a device held by the same person who’s featured in the portrait?

        now explain each case of why should or shouldn’t be that easy to take either word and morph its meaning into being for example, “the instance of a person in a fruit costume hanging out inside a fruit basket”.

        what i mean is, @paradiso@lemmy.world is completely missing the premise of this question.