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> heads up, that term is more considered offensive The passive voice thing always gets me here. It omits who is doing the considering. It's not like some word

> heads up, that term is more considered offensive The passive voice thing always gets me here. It omits who is doing the considering. It's not like some word suddenly is offensive. A small group of people decides the word is offensive and then they either succeed or not at dragging everyone else along with them. "Is considered offensive" lends it a gravity that it doesn't deserve if you translate it: "some people whose opinions you may or may not value consider xyz offensive".

burnished 2y ago
Agreed. Speak for yourself or speak for your community.
- hungie 2y ago
  That's a good call out. I do try this in practice, e.g., "some members of the Inuit community are pushing back against the term Eskimo, because it's an exonym" By I do sometimes fall back to the passive voice.