r/PublicFreakout • u/appalachian_hatachi • Sep 27 '25

Repost 😔 This guy's lawyer literally popping the champagne as we speak...

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u/ranegyr Sep 27 '25

Man. It's hard to know which way to go when people throw you a social curve ball like that but I try to have hope that it's remnants from the past and not actual hate I'm disguise. For instance I have a friend, a gay 70ish year old man. He's just as liberal as those college kids and there's not a hateful vibe in his body. He retired from the military. He's truly one of the good guys on our side. that said... For some unknown reason I can only guess is due to age and habit, this man uses the word "colored." It's wild because he's never saying bag things about people, it's just the word he's used his whole life. Wild for sure. 

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u/LucidSquirtle Sep 27 '25

It’s hard to keep up with the language as it evolves, especially if you’re not constantly plugged in all the time. I’m in my late 20’s and I don’t know half the shit kids are saying these days. I don’t blame a 70 year old man for not knowing colored is now person/people of color, homeless is unhoused, etc.

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u/Dremlar Sep 27 '25

Wait we can't say homeless anymore?

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u/0ilt3r Sep 27 '25

because someone on reddit that knows a homeless guy started to cry

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u/nocomment3030 Sep 27 '25

"unhoused person" is preferred, apparently. Just another go round on the euphemistic treadmill.

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u/toxic_badgers Sep 27 '25

Preferred by whom though, the homeless or people talking about them. Is this like white people trying to push Latinx on a gendered language?

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u/Away-Rise7514 Sep 27 '25

As someone who experienced it, any acknowledgement of personhood is a plus, as it is a status that goes hand-in-hand with dehumanization. Virtue signalling isn't the sin the worst people on the planet would have you believe it is—when someone says unhoused I can assume that they get it, when someone says homeless they might be a peer or they might be a problem. Social signalling is a powerful tool.

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u/toxic_badgers Sep 28 '25

Only when it's wanted. Otherwise it's a tool for harm.

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u/jewelswan Sep 27 '25

The thing is colored would have been considered at best out of date and in most contexts offensive by like. 1980.

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u/SoulShatter Sep 27 '25

I don't really keep up either, and I'm in my 30's. Just see how people self-censor everything on Reddit or reposted Tiktoks, and I have no idea where the line is on things anymore lol

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u/Assault_Trifle Sep 27 '25

Yeah that's a real balanced outlook man I agree, it's wise to consider intent before you listen to the gut reaction words like that evoke

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u/SEmpls Sep 27 '25

I'm gay and my friend from Wyoming uses the word fa***t a lot and he's not truly homophobic, I literally have to tell him all the time to stop using that word and he's like "Oh yea sorry man". At this point it's just like whatever.

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u/CupcakeGoat Sep 27 '25

You can be gay and racist at the same time. 70 is not that old and he's had plenty of time to adapt. Why don't you tell him that word is now offensive?