• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
    2·
    11 months ago

    It’s funny how innocuous stereotypes sometimes get popular like that. In ten or twenty years that stereotype will have been repeated by the current generation so much that the next generation will find it offensive.

    • FlaxEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      I swear that someday the word “autistic” will become offensive

      • LemmysMum@lemmy.world
        5·
        11 months ago

        Any word is offensive if you use it in a manner to cause offence.

        A muppet is a kids puppet with a hand in it, very entertaining, but if I call you a muppet I’m saying you’re all mouth and no brains.

        Most insults for stupidity are archaic medical terms describing a lack of normal capacity.

        • FlaxEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Yeah, but saying “lunatic” doesn’t carry the same weight as the R slur. I think “autistic” may eventually carry that weight

          • LemmysMum@lemmy.world
            1·
            11 months ago

            Because people are less offended about being called crazy than deficient. That’s nothing new.