What is the best way to react, if someone calls you a degenerate? Just leave them, remembering the insult?

This type of insult targets disabled people specifically?

  • gray@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    No decent person would use the word degenerate. Just don’t interact if you can

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      15 days ago

      I know a fairly large number of amazing people who use the word degenerate somewhat frequently. That said, they are all definitely degenerates and proud of it.

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          9 days ago

          It’s not even reclamation. It’s literally just using the word for its primary definition:

          Morally corrupt or given to vice.

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            9 days ago

            Sure but the n word also has a non offensive primary definition in some countries, now most people agree it is offensive regardless

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      16 days ago

      I may not be a decent person, but I do have a discord channel called The Department of Degeneracy where we post dark, spicy, and doomer memes that would make grandma gasp and clutch her pearls.