I mean you're more than welcome to share your opinion and/or be offended. I don't get why it's gotta be a generalized "triggered liberal" thing or w.e. - just seems so unproductive towards any end. If you want the language to stop, making it an us vs them thing doesn't appear to be a successful strategy.

If you're just memeing then carry on. It doesn't really bother me, I just never really understand the call-to-political-arms mentality for this kinda stuff, because it doesn't really change how people talk in my experience - it only changes who they talk to, which I think is counter-productive for society. A society built on private chatrooms is just putting everyone deeper into their own echo chamber.

I’ve been called an SJW for politely asking people to stop saying “retarded” or the n-word (or saying things that sound close to the n-word to allude to it). So even if you politely ask, some people will interpret it as an us-vs-them fight anyway.

I think the triggered liberal comment was an attempt at levity to make the feedback less harsh so that people might have a less visceral reaction.

People don't like bad faith being injected into their speech, and its absolutely appropriate to treat such attempts as an act of aggression, because it is.

> an attempt at levity to make the feedback less harsh

Indeed.

This is the dialect of /r/wallstreetbets. Apes strong together and all that jazz. To call someone a retard is a term of endearment, or a (not so) secret handshake.

(fellow gambling degenerate)

That’s lovely. Bad news is a bunch of edgelords don’t get to dictate how language is used or what it means.

Among themselves? Why wouldn't they? No one is obligated to participate.

To every smoothbrain that responded thusly, if you only use a word in private amongst certain other people, then it feels a lot like we both know that’s a word you shouldn’t use.

Like scientists, doctors, and programmers who only use certain words in the company of their fellow practitioners? Or say any number of fan bases (think Anime, or personality-driven youtube channels) that have their own lingo?

Hilarious to call people "smoothbrain" while decrying "retard" Clearly it doesn't bother you when someone's intellect is questioned, so what's the issue?

"edgelord" "smoothbrained" haha I have to agree here, this is a strange argument.

Please don't take HN threads further into tedious flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What else is language dictated by if not the people who use it?

It appears they’ve already done exactly that within their community

Bad news is that they do and are.

I mean it's basically the same kind of people that turned a word that simply meant 'delayed' into a slur.

No, any euphemism people invent to talk about things that are negative will inevitably end up as slurs, because people view these things as negative. It's inevitable. Even when they invent inscrutable acronyms like DAMP or ADHD, people will use them as slurs when they denote things that are undesirable.

This is not an example of that though, since "retarded" is not a slur in WSB, it's the opposite.

Actually, they do dictate how language is used amongst themselves. It’s pretty much tautological.

Lol what is an edgelord?

I've been using WSB and what has come since for many years as additional sources of DD; and it reads like "Howdy do fellow kids" type nonsense from someone who isn't part of the community.

The Ape stuff is cringe, because that moniker is adopted for those who can't read/can only buy and hold stock and is purely focused on GME anyway.

This could be a great resource and it doesn't need to be directed to people playing up ridiculous persona's on reddit when the reality is those who will read this are intelligent investors.

Your wife’s boyfriend can explain it to you.

We ban accounts that post like this, so please don't do it here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Fair enough. It was a /r/WallStreetBets reference.

Understood.