What is the best way to react, if someone calls you a degenerate? Just leave them, remembering the insult?
This type of insult targets disabled people specifically?
They’re probably far-right, which is why you find people in Nazi bars like MeanwhileOnGrad using it frequently: (credit to @Diva@lemmy.ml )
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Funny enough, lemmings.world shut down because this prediction was wrong, the communists are here to stay.
In that sense, I’d react similarly to whenever a fascist, Zionist, etc. starts attacking me. None of their points hold any water, so just point that out.
No, it is a general insult usually aimed at your moral character.
Yeah, I’ve never heard of it being used to target people with disabilities (although looking it up, I see it can be used that way, TIL) - I’ve only ever thought of it as a judgement on character/behaviour. Like I’d have no issue with anyone describing Trump as a degenerate, because he’s a sick, twisted, vindictive, corrupt prick.
So is it an okay insult to use depending on context?
That’s all words really.
I am not justifying the insult, just explaining how most people would use it.
If thrown out sincerely, or with real vitriol, avoid. It’s pretty dehumanizing in such a sense.
But if it’s was a friend teasing you then that’s something else, just throw some insult back at them.
If it’s not being used ironically or self deprecatingly I generally assume the person in question is a fash or some sort of right winger
No decent person would use the word degenerate. Just don’t interact if you can
Unless it’s a consensual sex thing
I may not be a decent person, but I do have a discord channel called The Department of Degeneracy where we post dark, spicy, and doomer memes that would make grandma gasp and clutch her pearls.
Tell them to dengerate these nutz
What did you do?
When I was young I was bullied every single day. For the longest time It bothered me. Then one day something changed, I stopped caring. People would throw out insults and jokes and I just dissociate myself. I’d hear it and if it was at all funny I’d laugh. After about a month I was entirely left alone. Those people were never nice to me and never showed me respect. But the fact they got 0 rise at me meant they got bored.
So I’d suggest to anyone to not take whatever personally and just shrug it off. Eventually in my experience it stops !
I will say this may not work for everyone. And for some this may just escalate to even more horrible things. But it might be worth a shot ? And obviously change course if things go south …
I laugh and call them a loser
