Degenerate is a fascist word!

[taq@thicc.horse]

Degenerate is a fascist word!

You are not a degenerate! No one is a degenerate!

It is not a real phenomenon that by low quality genetics you and your line will degenerate into mentally physically morally inferior non-human apes.

"Degen" is an excuse for genocide!

Do not describe things as degenerate!

[noxypaws@packmates.org]

@taq THANK YOU.

I'm so sick of seeing this garbage concept be echoed by well meaning people who don't know better.

I keep having to refine my technique of how to point it out, cuz I keep just pissing people off thinking I'm calling them nazis when I'm just trying to make it clear the origins of the term.

[thief@weirder.earth]

@taq here's some history from wikipedia for anyone who doubts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degeneration_theory

[taq@thicc.horse]

@noxypaws yes, there are two people who use nazi words; nazis and beople who have been tricked.

I think that the commonness of the perception that making a mistake is a moral failing is a social weapon wielded against us by the same people tricking people into using languages of oppression.

[banneduser@app.wafrn.net]

As a physics nerd the fascist co-opting of the word “degenerate” annoys the fuck out of me. I just wanna talk about neutron stars and entropy aaaaa

[taq@thicc.horse]

@banneduser jargon remaining used in the contexts where it is (and preferably *clearly* is) jargon is fine in my eyes.

[taq@thicc.horse]

@banneduser though iirc in those contexts 'degenerate' is a verb and 'degenerative' is the adjective

[taq@thicc.horse]

@scifiphysics cope!

[taq@thicc.horse]

@scifiphysics you and everyone around you knows when you are speaking in the context of quantum physics, and when you are not whoever uses the term degenerate, especially in reference to humans or human activity, is asking to get hit in the face with a baseball bat

[ally@social.allykotetsu.com]

@taq what about as like reclaiming? I would be under the impression that if, say, queer people call themselves that then its reclamation

[taq@thicc.horse]

@ally i will not personally stop anyone from using a word in reference to themself. but i invite you to examine why you want to "reclaim" to idea that you are a blight whose mere potential to reproduce endangers the survival of humanity.

if a person uses it to describe a group, even a group they are a member of, they mark themself as an enemy of friendship.