• Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    But it’s not, you see, because tankies call themselves tankies, and it’s a voluntary political designation besides.

    Is calling fundamentalists “fundies” a slur?

    Is calling Republicans “elephants” a slur? Democratic “donkeys” a slur?

    What about the term “Dems?”, is that a slur? “Rs”?

    It reeks of it only because they are using single words to describe a multi-layered something for the sake of brevity. It’s a pronoun. You are against pronouns.