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Take your pick — There's a whole world of insults that don't involve punching down at marginalised groups. I realise that may sound hyperbolic, but I say it because I'm someone who is sometimes the recipient of that slur, and it's jarring to see it in spaces like this. I know that in this case, it wasn't at me, but a key part of why insults like this carry weight is because of the comparison it makes to people like me (even if only implicitly).
My hope is that we might be more creative with our insults when solidarity is our best weapon against these assholes
I understand what you're saying, and I agree.
That being said, most people don't know how to throw a punch. To the degree that many people need to be told not to hold their thumbs in their fist. They aren't concerned with the collateral damage, to themselves or otherwise - they're just throwing the punch.
I'm not saying it's right, but this is the reality. These people have never been trained to recognize the value of articulating themselves correctly, or maybe they have but they've been in the monkey pit for so long that they just learned how to fling shit as a defense mechanism.
I don't think you're wrong in advocating for the abolishment of certain words, or rather the uses of those words. I do think you're pissin in the wind, though.
I'm watching the shows "Life on Mars" and "Ashes to Ashes", both of which prominently display modern sensibilities in the 70's and 80's, respectably.
It's very easy to hear the problem youre describing if one can't see/hear it in the modern context. The amount of casual racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, ableism. (Hard ableism, as in a deaf kid gets treated as if they were mentally disabled.)
Oh yeah, I can imagine; I feel like I would cringe if I rewatched those shows (especially as I was less visibly disabled back when I watched them the first time, and so hadn't experienced random ableist slurs directed at me by strangers on the street).
Whenever someone mentions that the 70s and 80s were 40-50 years ago, I usually feel uncomfortable at the inexorable passage of time and my place within it; however when I consider how far we've come since then though, across many different domains, I feel slightly heartened — when the reality is that progress happens a trickle at a time, I feel less small and overwhelmed at my own capacity to make change happen.
I don't know if you realised, but I'm not talking about shows from the 70's and 80's, but of shows which are from 2006 and 2008 and which have the main character be of that modern era and then experience the 70's/80's through the lens of someone from ~2007.
Yeah I was born in the 80's, I definitely know that feel. My brain still defaults to calculating things as if it were 2000. "The 70's? That's 30 years ago."