• Fenrir
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    11 hours ago

    Amazing how referring to people by their perceived flaws can be offensive. Woke culture strikes again.

    Edit: In case it wasn’t obvious, this was sarcasm. No shit being defined by (what others consider) a flaw is gonna be offensive. I thought my original comment was obvious.

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      12 hours ago

      Amazing how referring to people by their perceived flaws can be offensive

      I mean, isn’t this common sense? If you work for me and bring me some sub-par work, I can call you a fucking retard, and you’ll probably be offended. On the other hand, if I pull you aside and say that usually you do excellent work, but I’m not liking this, and here’s a couple ideas to improve your work, you might look upon that more fondly.

      In both scenarios, I’m communicating that I’m not happy with you and/or your work, but one is likely to lead to an HR incident and one isn’t. How is this “woke”? (I fucking hate that term, because it tends to be use as shorthand for “stuff I don’t like”, but no two people seem to share definition beyond that)

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        11 hours ago

        Yes, that was my point. I guess the sarcasm was lost

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      11 hours ago

      If a word is used with the intent to insult people, no shit that that word starts getting perceived as an insult.

      It’s the euphemism treadmill