Euphemism treadmill.

In any sensitive, socially fraught context, terminology will just change faster than in other areas of life.

That’s why we no longer use terms like idiot, retard, cripple, imbecile, etc. as neutral, objective terminology. Instead, terms that where initially used as objective, clinical terminology are now exclusively used as slurs and insults.

It’s just that when it comes to race, some people (and it’s often people not affected by it) have a hard time accepting that concept.

“Die Palästinenser sind unterdrückt, und die Muslime in Dagestan sind auch unterdrückt - da muss man es schon verstehen, wenn Muslime in Dagestan ein paar Juden verprügeln!”

Schöne Logik.

You’ll never completely eliminate all possible bias from human beings serving on a nation’s highest court, but out of the things that could be done, the United States is doing exactly nothing.

Aber ich fühle mich unwohl weil da die Webseite vom Kleintierzüchterverein Google Fonts eingebunden hat!!1!1!1!!!

Former Republican president/Republican presidential candidate has dinner with Nazi. College Republican invite Nazi as guest speaker. MAGA Republicans invite Nazi to speak at their rallye.

Republicans, when confronted with this: “Why are you calling us Nazis!?!?!?!!”

2016 hat Musk über Full Self Driving gesagt: “The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.”

Sieben Jahre später ist es mehr als eindeutig, dass “Full Self Driving” immer noch einen aufmerksamen Fahrer benötigt, der immer auf den Verkehr achtet und jederzeit eingreifen kann.

Und das wäre auch vollkommen okay, wenn Musk eben nicht seit vielen Jahren vollmundige Versprechen machen würde, die Tesla bis heute nicht mal ansatzweise einlösen kann.

Leute, die grade von Reddit zu Feddit gewechselt sind:

“Was ist eigentlich aus 9GAG geworden?”

It’s funny, because if you’re living in the US and bringing up topics (like e.g. healthcare, parental leave, vacation time, sick days, the school system, universal access to universities and higher education, traffic deaths, gun violence, etc. etc. etc.) the reaction is often “well, if you hate it so much, why don’t you just leave?”

And then, when you actually leave and live a much more enjoyable and happy life elsewhere, the reaction is “we don’t want to hear about it!!!”

Yeah, but see: she worked incredibly hard to

• defeat hate crimes prevention legislation
• prevent extending disaster aid to Kathrina victims
• prevent the expansion of the Voting Rights Act
• prevent the Armenian genocide from being declared a “genocide”

and she firmly stood her ground in telling everyone that Obamacare was a danger to the nation bigger than any terrorist attack on America ever could be.

That’s a lot of hard work, you see?

Feels a bit ridiculous.

Even low-balling Trump’s supposed wealth, that’s like setting bond for the average person at $7.50.