cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10105454
• Gen Z’s nostalgia for the early 2000s is sparking a revival of landline phones, seen as a retro-chic escape from the digital age.
• Influenced by '90s and 2000s TV shows, young adults like Nicole Randone and Sam Casper embrace landlines for their vintage appeal.
• Urban Outfitters capitalizes on Gen Z’s love for nostalgia by selling retro items like landline phones alongside fashion trends from the '90s and 2000s.
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It’s 2024. Stop using that word. I know I don’t need to explain why.
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It’s more recent. Just the euphemism treadmill in action.
Basically, some people are clinically unintelligent out of no fault of their own, and we’d rather they not get caught in the crossfire when insults are being hurtled. The approach to that has been to try and avoid unintelligence-based insults, but it hasn’t worked, because it actually is just better to be smarter.
I don’t really have a better suggestion, though.
You could at least act ignorant rather than trying to logic your hatefulness
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Stop arguing about what slurs are okay to use. The only rule around here is to be nice. If someone asks you to not use a word because it hurts them, the nice thing to do is to listen.
Because language is fluid and changes with societal use. We don’t all defer to linguistic norms from hundreds or even thousands of years ago when literally everything about life would be alien to us now.
I’m sure you didn’t intend to post such a nice comment (based on the historical definition of the word)…
I 100% agree, but is there any way we could kind of keep working to phase out retarded from common vocabulary. It’s just such a charged and unnecessary word to use as a pejorative.
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It does matter what words you use as evidenced by the fight you’re putting up to justify using hateful slurs. If it doesn’t matter than you should say to yourself “this doesn’t matter to me but it matters to others so I’ll be respectful and not use the word like an insult anymore.”
Would you walk up to somebody who is on the autism spectrum and call them that word? Are you seriously that daft? Do we have to get this basic about this because you can’t use your imagination?
Your response is flippant and I know even you could come up with examples where we needed to stop using a word and it was a good decision. But instead you are grandstanding and using absolutist language here because you want to win an Internet argument. For what? The right to use a hateful slur targeting people who have no control over something you are mocking?
You are welcome to use it if it’s that important to you. But you are not immune from social repercussions. And no, no one is going to grant you that. So live your life knowing you can be the hurtful person you want to be.
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Casual slur use is cool and normal
The article doesn’t offer a single statistic suggesting there is a resurgence of landlines, much less that Gen Z folks are responsible for it. It’s basically just a fiction piece.
Are you accusing the New York Post of not being hard-hitting journalism?
Dare I say, this news is falsified?
I don’t know why I’m surprised. I guess I just assumed there would be some link to reality.
Wired, VoIP phones are viable. Landlines aren’t. ATAs convert old landline phones into VoIP phones.