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Madness is now a forbidden word. The non-harmful word is "surprising/wild",
by 323 4y ago
Madness is now a forbidden word. The non-harmful word is "surprising/wild",
- yarg 4y agoThere's a surprising/wild girl I know, the security guard at the library explained the smashed window with one word - her name.
- barbariangrunge 4y agoThe term "wild" has been used to refer to indigenous peoples for centuries; it has also been used to describe foreigners, and people with mental health issues, for even longer. The term "surprising" has a lot of connotations too. Safer to just not speak
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- fleddr 4y agoThe funny thing is that the replacement word inevitably becomes insulting. For example, when you say to your friend that he's very "special", we all know what's up.
- jimbokun 4y agoCould be a fun game to create social media accounts just for the purpose of problematizing terminology popular with self described progressive people until they are speaking jargon incomprehensible to anyone else. Or maybe it already happened.
- crystalmeph 4y agoIsn’t this basically what 4Chan did with the “OK” hand symbol?