• loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    This is like saying “Everyone who’s ever called for genocide described their targets as bad people, therefore calling someone a bad person is genocidal ideology”. The word “degenerate”:

    • Doesn’t originate in genocidal ideology
    • Doesn’t have an intrinsically genocidal meaning
    • Has continuously been used in non-political contexts.

    If we keep banning every word of the dictionary that a nazi has ever used, fascists will end up the only ones able to talk…

    • TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This is like saying “Everyone who’s ever called for genocide described their targets as bas people, therefore calling someone a bad person is genocidal ideology”.

      It’s not like that at all. I am bringing awareness to the ideology behind the word. As soon as you start declaring a class of people degenerate, you begin enacting a genocide. Are you delusional enough to think this happens all at once? The authorities labelling normality and degeneracy are in the process of culling outliers who don’t feel comfortable under their authority.

      I didn’t say we should ban it. I posted so that it could be used more accurately. The only degenerates are the fascists. They’ve programmed themselves into blind obedience. They will Not-See anything they’re told.