cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25133597
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Obligatory, fuck Spez
The f-slur is defined as referring to gay men, but people also use it to insult straight men by suggesting that they’re gay. In the same way, “tankie” may be defined as a particular type of communist, but it is deployed against people who don’t fit the definition to imply that they do.
This is how basically all insults work, don’t play dumb. The definition is something assumed to be bad, and the way it’s used is to suggest the person meets that definition.
I’m referring to what they said, not some other insult.
Words are defined by common use.
Yeah and that common definition is described in dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Except when people on here use it all the time to refer to people who don’t meet the definition.
Regardless, I’m happy that y’all are changing the definition through over use since it defangs it. You can insist all you want that “It’s only used against the people mentioned in the formal definition” but everyone who’s ever seen it in actual use knows you’re wrong.
Again, you could also try to tell me that the f-slur only applies to gay people since that’s what the dictionary defines it as, but every straight guy who’s ever been called it (most of them, at least from my generation) knows you’re full of shit.
It’s like trying to say that “You’re mother’s a removed” only applies to people who’s mothers are actually prostitutes, it’s ridiculous and very obviously not how language works.
If you actually only use it according to the dictionary definition, there are no tankies, or at least, very few, even on places like Hexbear or Lemmygrad.