• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    You were using a controversial slur to refer to a disorder whose actual name you full well know.

    Don’t worry, much like sociopathy the current term will eventually also become a slur and need to be renamed again. This is the way of such things - so long as the thing is seen as something negative, the term for being/having that thing will take on a negative connotation over time. Several rounds of this is why the language has become so wordy and bloodless - if it’s enough of a pain to repeat in full every time it takes longer for it to become a slur.

    • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      Maybe words for disorders wouldn’t turn into slurs if people like you didn’t insist on stigmatising disorders by diagnosing evil public figures with them.