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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mltruly I am cultured
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    2 months ago

    There was a big push to make “African American” the politically correct term in the late 00s, but for basically every reason you mentioned, it didn’t quite catch.

    The term AAVE was coined in 1973 as a replacement for “ebonics” and it spread throughout the 80s and 90s. There’s a bunch more info about it on the wiki and I don’t think I can succinctly summarize it, but it’s an interesting read.




  • My experience has been finding a 5 step solution to a problem, with step 3 not working properly and requiring several hours of effort to find a workaround, finding an entirely different solution elsewhere (that also doesn’t work), then discovering there’s been a flatpack the entire time.

    Still have bazzite on my shitty 10 year old laptop because it cannot possibly run windows at this point, but I don’t think I’d daily drive it.









  • That’s the euphemism treadmill I’m talking about. Idiot, moron, and imbecile were all terms used to describe conditions scientifically. They all became insults and were replaced by various degrees of “retardation,” which as you mentioned does come from root words meaning slow or delayed. When that similarly became an insult, special needs was coined. Then that became an insult and now the preferred term is intellectual disability. That one seems sterile enough but we’ll see.