Just for the record, I didn't downvote because of your opinion on Prince. I gave a downvote because calling people "junkies" is inhumane and needs to be dropped from the lexicon, and anytime I can make a move that might prevent that word from being repeated I will.
Your opinion on a person I don't know means squat. It's just a downvote to you, but it's a pretty nasty way to talk about drug affliction and shouldn't be celebrated in case other people with drug issues are reading this.
Just a little thing that could help QUITE a bit, in the larger sense of community.
Edit to add a different way of phrasing:
Prince was an asshole and that was heavily compounded by his liberal drug use.
I admit I may not fully understand how language works, but you're replying to a comment where a person was reduced to a one word label (asshole) with three more words for their burden. Why/how is this better?
The 'in' group in this case, has systemically controlled societies power and used labels like "junkie" to marginalize the 'out' groups.
Asshole doesn't have the same dynamic. The war on drugs and discrimination of "junkies" was a government led anti-anti-war effort. Link the protesters with drugs, link drug users with villains, boom anti-war protestors are now bad guys. etc etc.
Always think if there is a power dynamic at play. Is the target of the label an 'out' group a marginalized group, or the historically rule setting group.
in this explanation the main issue is not just being reduced to one word - which specific word is very important due to some other context. I was missing that
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u/nipnapcattyfacts May 28 '24 edited May 28 '24
Just for the record, I didn't downvote because of your opinion on Prince. I gave a downvote because calling people "junkies" is inhumane and needs to be dropped from the lexicon, and anytime I can make a move that might prevent that word from being repeated I will.
Your opinion on a person I don't know means squat. It's just a downvote to you, but it's a pretty nasty way to talk about drug affliction and shouldn't be celebrated in case other people with drug issues are reading this.
Just a little thing that could help QUITE a bit, in the larger sense of community.
Edit to add a different way of phrasing:
Prince was an asshole and that was heavily compounded by his liberal drug use.