>>87564373>I like to cope that that's why they noped out of that one. As long as people view mental deficiency negatively, people will use it to insult people. Word games won't help that.People need to recognize that this sort of dynamic applies to literally everything.
If you are someone with no concept of external reality, then as far as you are concerned, changing words literally is changing reality in every way that matters. Which is why regressives are so preoccupied with subverting language.
But when, for example, they decided to start calling fags a synonym for 'happy' instead, that didn't associate fags with connotations of gaiety, it associated gay with connotations of faggotry.
Happens every single time. Negro is literally just the spanish work for black. *Black* is just the english word for black. But there is not a single word for speaking about sub-saharan bantus that does not not acquire negative connotations, because sub-saharan bantus themselves give the names a bad name. Same deal with all the other usual suspects, khazars, troons, w*men, armenians, you name it.
So what you end up with in practice is like this game of linguistic whack-a-mole, where every existing word for some catachretic demographic, catachretic qualities, catachretic behaviors, gets banished to the outer darkness, and by and by the new terms all acquire the exact same connotations in turn.
