A deal to end the 41-day government shutdown is running into turbulence, thanks to a single Senate objection: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Senate Republican and Democratic leaders say they need to resolve Paul’s objection to a provision in the government funding package before they can accelerate consideration of the bill. The provision would restrict the unregulated sale of intoxicating hemp-based products.
That cat isn’t going back in the bag. Marijuana is what we call weed.
We have several hundred words for it, as far as I know nobody of any race or ethnic background is offended by any of them.
I mean you do you, but there are dozens of words for it and I dont see the need to use the one invented by racists.
Edit: invented by racists specifically to promote racism.
Technically I think most words were invented by racists.
Ur right^^ but most were not invented specifically to promote racisms
This is that kind of hill that some progressives try to die on that serves absolutely no good and just perpetuates the stereotype that the left is full of “thought police” and want to make laws about words.
Let’s focus this energy against enemies, and there are plenty.
Would you say the same about the n-word? This is the exact same argument people used to make when the efforts of getting rid of its frequent use started growing.
I dont see the point of not making informative statements in an already progressive bubble. How would you suggest I “focus the energy against enemies” in a lemmy thread aboud weed?
It’s absolutely not the same, one word offends a lot of people broadly because it signals how you feel about them, and the other doesn’t do that, the other is a word that people of all races and backgrounds use and is never used as a signal from people to show how they feel about a race or minority group, at least not in the modern world. Nobody is going to call you a racist for using the word marijuana… except if we start cycling what you’re saying here, in this bubble of dry kindling and impressionable minds looking to police each other, then there WILL be debates about the word, and it will continue to bleed into other spaces and make leftists infight because it’s a stupid thing to try to chastise people about, and it will become another performative issue that makes people roll their eyes at activism in general.
Honestly I wouldn’t bring it up at all. If you’re not in an etymology discussion, what good do you POSSIBLY expect to come from educating people about this? What is your end-goal? Do you actually think it’s worth the energy of even trying to get people to change their language for no good reason when it serves no real good or have any real benefits?
Youre right, its not the same kind of term. Its the same argument though, thats what I said.
Not sure if youre serious about passing on knowledge being useless, but Ill bite. I am simply basing it off my own efforts to avoid using problematic language. I very much appreciate people telling me when I use words like that and why they are problematic, so that I can potentially avoid them in the future.
Let me ask you the same: What do you expect to gain from me not educating people about the origins of the term? From people still connecting crime to minorities through language invented by racists for propaganda?
Educate people all you want, in the proper context. You know VERY WELL that someone was going to try to push back on it here because you want to have a debate with someone and are too scared to face down actual conservatives in conservative spaces about their ACTUAL racism.
I am extremely frustrated with leftists online bickering about MOTHERFUCKING TONE AND WORDS that don’t hurt anyone because someone, somewhere, who isn’t even effected by said words, started saying it was problematic, BECAUSE MY COUNTRY IS COLLAPSING AND YOU SHITS ARE BEING PERFORMATIVE.
That’s it, I’m done, I will never see another message from you because you’re stubborn and I don’t have time nor patience, I have dozens of accounts across different platforms for scolding dumb shits and promoting unity and direction forward towards common goals. You decide in silence if you have any responsibility and accountability to help keep our collected ideological group focused on the right concerns while our constitution burns.
What would you call a single serving bottle of liquor?
A fifth.
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No idea, what do you mean?
A 50ml bottle would be called what? The most common answer is a racist term for Japanese people and I have to correct almost every employee I have trained because of how common it is.
The correct proper answer is a “mini” but there’s a more common term.
I honestly dont know what term you mean and I probably dont even know it, Im not a native English speaker.
But whats your point though? That racist terms are common? Im sure they are, but should that prevent people from trying to avoid them?
No, I was seeing if you were the kind of person to call out one “racist” term while ignoring another one because you don’t see it as one which is what others are doing here with marijuana.
I put “racist” in quotes because i believe you are mistaken as to why Hearst publications popularized the term marijuana. As I recall they popularized marijuana so they could push for a cannabis ban because hemp based papers, which had recent developments to increase their efficiency, would threaten Hearst’s paper processing plants. Had they pushed for a hemp/cannabis ban in their papers the medical community would have freaked out as it was in a bunch of medicines in that time. Thus marijuana was decried in the press.
Interesting. Thats not the story I heard/read but Ill take a look again.
But yes, Im sure I also have “racist” or problematic terms in my vocabulary without knowing about them.
Icod be mistaken about Hearst as he did lose a bunch of land to the Mexican liberation. He was very racist tegarding Mexicans as a result.