Spyke
lemmy.world

Didn’t y’all read? Instead of “the French”, a more appropriate term they recommend is “people with mental illnesses”.

/s for the humor impaired

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Victims implies vulnerability. We now prefer people with a condition of being French.

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lemmy.world

I mostly use "The French" in a dehumanising manner. Which is a good thing, because a chess opening should not be humanised.

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Love is a human emotion, so the Caro Kann will never love you. Hope you recover from this loss.

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Ahh yes I heard the correct term is ‘ze freench’

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stingpiereply
lemmy.world

The tweet is referring to saying "The [group] are xyz" instead of saying "[group] people are xyz"

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lemmy.world

Both versions have the same meaning to me. Sometimes I think we change things just to feel like we're doing something.

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lunarulreply
lemmy.world

Of course it has the same meaning. The guide is about how to rephrase the same thing, not about changing what you write entirely.

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lunarulreply
lemmy.world

Wording like "the poor" makes being poor an identity. While "people who are poor" identifies them as people first. It's a subtle difference, but it has proven impact on general public perception of certain groups.

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How Interpreted this:

"Complaints have been received regarding an poorly thought out inclusion to our examples of dehumanizing terms. We apologize and will no longer consider that term dehumanizing."

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The use of "the French" in this tweet by @AP was inappropriate and should have been "the Fr*nch 🤢."

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French people didn't want to be lumped in with the other groups - thereby being offensive

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