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Jerry Seinfeld says KKK is ‘actually a little better’ than Free Palestine movement (www.yahoo.com)

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[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

I quoted the psychiatric definition on purpose.

The general population has a tendency of diluting medical, mostly psychiatric, terms, either rendering them meaningless (see people describing themselves as having OCD because they are quirky) or even turning them into slurs (see various names for intellectual disabilities, like "imbecile", "idiot" and so on).

I have an issue with that specifically. I replied to someone else why stretching the age from "prepubescent" to "below the legal age of consent" (hell, some poster even suggested "below the legal age of majority even if the legal age of consent is lower") bugs me.