• humorlessrepost@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Maybe to a psychopath. Any negative quality can be considered a slur by someone possessing it. A selfish person doesn’t like being called selfish, I suspect. I’m still going to call spades spades.

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      4 months ago

      The word is literally just Greek for mentally ill person. If you hate ps*chopaths, I’m going to assume you hate people for having depression, anxiety, or autism.

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        4 months ago

        What part of my entirely English sentence gave you the impression I was speaking Greek? Should we go back to PIE roots to find some more hidden bigotry?

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          The word doesn’t mean anything in English. I assumed you were speaking Greek because otherwise you’d be babbling like a baby.

          Oh, well, it is a slur against disabled people in some dialects of English, I suppose.