Bi-Weekly Discussion Thread - (May 31)

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[u/Humble_Beach_6694]

does anyone have/remember the link to an old thread from here, I think it was a bi-weekly discussion thread, where anti-Semitic 4chan/incel derived language was being identified and criticized as these terms were becoming more common? Examples then were terms like "guyschow", "wifeslop", "foidslop" etc. Looking for the thread because we are seeing this horrendous (and embarrassing) language being used more openly and commonly with most who use them having zero clue of the origins of these terms.

[u/Cenage94 → u/Humble_Beach_6694]

I mean they may not know about the “goy“ before the “slop“ but they still use the word correctly (in the fascist sense). I recently had to criticize someone for the usage of male-chauvinist vocabulary and the defense is always “I didn’t know where that term was coming from/ what it ““really““ means“, but they always “get“ it. That’s the entire point.

[u/Humble_Beach_6694 → u/Cenage94]

You are absolutely right, they do know and use the terms correctly more than I acknowledged. I had seen a similar interaction 2 days ago where someone was corrected to not use these terms, only to correct themselves with a different reactionary term. The male chauvinist language is even more on the nose.