okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it good employer strategy to pay my employees just enough so that they can't save money, so that they can never walk away from the job?English
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13 days agoOnly because they massively displaced a shitload of local business. Same with Amazon. If you have very little skills, where else are you going to work?
I think “slur” also requires a component of direct offense for it mean anything. I don’t think it is valid to be offended for somebody else if that somebody else isn’t actually offended. If I make up a slur on the spot denigrating some aspect of your person that you do not find offensive (eg. Flumplenook - for a person who’s a bit clumsy), is it really a slur?
So if you call someone retarded, and they do not have the mental faculties to be offended, is it really a slur?
For slurs to have any meaning, any power, they need to be understood and internalized as offensive.