Trump’s use of the mental health slur cost him the support of at least one Republican senator, whom he had wanted to help redraw congressional district lines
I suppose it’s a noble goal in theory but it seems doomed to fail in practice, which makes the whole exercise seem rather pointless. Changing the word doesn’t change the intent behind the people using it as an insult so why give a negative connotation to a bunch of new terms? We already have several of those.
I dunno dude, baby steps I guess? I think the goal is, as a society, to change the intent behind people using it. Give people the vocabulary to insult their friends in a funny way that doesn’t have hateful undertones (they may or may not even be aware of) and also try to remove (or reduce) the hate directed at people that are “different”.
I guess just giving up is an option, but that definitely won’t make the world better either so… shrug
I suppose it’s a noble goal in theory but it seems doomed to fail in practice, which makes the whole exercise seem rather pointless. Changing the word doesn’t change the intent behind the people using it as an insult so why give a negative connotation to a bunch of new terms? We already have several of those.
I dunno dude, baby steps I guess? I think the goal is, as a society, to change the intent behind people using it. Give people the vocabulary to insult their friends in a funny way that doesn’t have hateful undertones (they may or may not even be aware of) and also try to remove (or reduce) the hate directed at people that are “different”.
I guess just giving up is an option, but that definitely won’t make the world better either so… shrug