Future Taboo Words

[exball]

Communism is already a slur, at least in the USA. It means "This person is more left-leaning than me, therefore the person is a godless commie pinko."

What year do you think it is? Communism hasn't been unironically used as a slur since the fall of the Soviet Union.

 

[AnOminous]

What year do you think it is? Communism hasn't been unironically used as a slur since the fall of the Soviet Union.

I take it you don't know many right wingers.

 

[Marvin]

It's weird to think that the word faggot is on par with nigger to some people.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fcja4WFFzDw

Eh, it honestly should be on par with nigger. I mean, gay people get murdered for being gay. Heh, like there's such a thing called "gay panic defense". When things get to such a ridiculous point, then yeah, faggot is anomalous to nigger.

 

[cypocryphy]

I've noticed when I've heard "Money For Nothing" on the radio recently, the whole verse with the word "faggot" being said a few times is totally cut out.

 

[AnOminous]

I've noticed when I've heard "Money For Nothing" on the radio recently, the whole verse with the word "faggot" being said a few times is totally cut out.

There are actually two versions of the song, and have been for a while. What version they play is up to the station.

It's somewhat ironic, as the person being called a faggot in the song is literally the person who is singing the song in the persona of a dumb Joe Sixpack.

 

[Some JERK]

The campaign to "end the r-word" and other "ableist slurs" have always struck me as missing the point. None of the people who make these new euphemism treadmill words ever seem to reflect on why every new word they make eventually becomes a slur no matter how nice it sounds. If they don't want the slow kid to be made fun of, they should teach kids not to be dicks instead of trying to sugarcoat language.

That, and also the mechanism of that "treadmill" sometimes operates far faster than it should. People who have been the subject of insult in the past can sometimes be hypersensitive to further perceived insults, and infer derision from even acceptable language that isn't being used as an insult.

Spoiler: A personal story about that

For example: when I was in high-school I got in a fistfight with an Asian kid over nothing. He and a group of friends were in the hall right in front of me and my buddy. Classes were getting out and there was a slowdown at the door. I turned to my friend and said "I fucking hate these goddamned bottlenecks!". The Asian kid in front of me assumed that "bottleneck" was somehow a racist insult against Asians, and turned around and punched me in the mouth. We went at it right there in the hall. To this day it stands out as one of the stupidest things that's ever happened to me.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

new taboo words
politics
social justice
socialism
liberalism
capitalism
pretty much every -ism
politically correct

 

[Trapped_Fairy]

I think George Carlin said it best on this issue

 

[AnOminous]

I think George Carlin said it best on this issue

He's especially correct on the thing about if it has more syllables, it is probably bullshit. The more syllables it has, the more bullshit it is.

 

[Spob]

"Brainrot" (rationale: ableism)
"Woke" (rationale: "the alt-right turned it into a slur")

 

[Turkroach Couple]

I hope "feminist" doesn't become a taboo word.

The beginning of the end...

 

[Spob]

The beginning of the end...

I'm pooling on "tomboy" being deemed a taboo term, considering both the trans and feminist arguments against its usage and connotations.

Maybe "femboy" too?