• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
          151·
          1 year ago

          Thanks for letting me know. I thought it was equivalent to “Neanderthal” but just looked it up. I won’t use it again.

            • positiveWHAT@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              Detectives assemble! Something that could be confused as similar to Neanderthal, but isn’t. I’m guessing mongoloid?

              • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                You guessed correctly. It is not always a slur, more a description in an anachronistic method of defining human ‘races’, but is apparently a slur used against autistic people and therefore has been deleted from my mental vocabulary.

                • fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I think it’s a slur against people with Down’s syndrome. It was originally used to refer to people from East Asia (mongoloid from either Mongols or Mongolia, not sure which), then later applied to people with Down’s syndrome due to similarities between some East Asian facial features and the facial features common among those living with the syndrome.

                  Looks like it was most commonly used in the 50s and 60s. Not sure if it wasn’t considered offensive then or if people just didn’t care as much.

                  Edit: also, props to you for using this as a chance to learn rather than getting defensive.

    • IDew@lemm.eeEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      And I was about to comment I felt relieved to no langer have horny redditors around lmao

    • Ech@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Hey look! It really is reddit. We have horny dumbasses making insulting comments here too!

    • nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Thank goodness we’re actually deleting this filth instead of with the other site that would be spammed full of “lol horni upvote

      On topic, as a passerby from all, that is really fuckin impressive

    • N1cknamed@kbin.social
      11·
      1 year ago

      So disheartening that even on a smaller community with a supposedly mature userbase there are still people that think it’s normal to leave comments like this. The number of upvotes you received does not inspire confidence in the fediverse community to be any better than Reddit.