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"Educator" is not a real profession. You are a teacher, or you are some type of administrator.
"Educator" is not a real profession. You are a teacher, or you are some type of administrator. - Lemmy.World
The word “educator” has grown in prominence in the past 10 years, but it’s not a real profession. I completely understand why people involved in education administration like to use it - because it makes it sound like they’re directly involved in teaching students, when in reality they are part of the gigantic bureaucratic structure that is siphoning money away from actually teaching students. Teachers should call themselves teachers and be proud. It’s a noble profession. Administrators, assistants, program coordinators, etc should just call themselves administrators for short, because they aren’t educators. Being involved in education, and being an educator, are two different things.
Everyone understands what is meant by "ethnic food"
Everyone understands what is meant by "ethnic food" - Lemmy.World
People can stop with the performative outrage when someone says “ethnic food”, you understand exactly what they mean. Yes, since food is an element of ethnic culture, all food is “ethnic”, but words and phrases have multiple meanings and, again, you understood exactly what they meant and it was Mexican or Chinese, not a burger place.
Wearing leisurewear out and about is declasse
Wearing leisurewear out and about is declasse - Lemmy.World
Leisurewear: things like sweat pants, track suits, pajama pants, leggings. Out and about: anywhere you’re not immediately and obviously coming to/going from working out, or in the case of pajama pants, literally anywhere at all outside of your home. It all is so declasse and even trashy. No we don’t dress as formally as they did in the 1950s, but being the tip of the spear of plunging standards by wearing Tweety Bird flannel pants grocery shopping or skin tight leggings out to dinner makes you uniquely classless. If your behavior is driving the eradication of standards, yeah, your choices are bad. Have some respect for yourself and others and throw on actual pants at least, even if you still must wear a hoodie with them. A collared shirt would be a bonus, but again, pants are the bare minimum here to seem respectable. It’s ironic, because even wealthy people are doing it, especially leggings everywhere. But that’s the era we live in, where the wealthiest among us are often the most culturally vapid as well.
"Retard" is a great insult and no normal person believes it's harmful to the intellectually disabled
"Retard" is a great insult and no normal person believes it's harmful to the intellectually disabled - Lemmy.World
“Retard” is the perfect length for an insult and lends itself very well for emphasis. It rolls off the tongue in anger or disgust very well. Like with most insults, nobody even thinks about what it actually means (see: “motherfucker”, “dumbass”, etc) any more. Furthermore, nobody calls the intellectually disabled “retards”, and “retarded” is also quite rare now as is “mental retardation”. So “retard” is perfect for repurposing as a general purpose insult. People who get up in arms about this are basically saying that the mentally handicapped are retards, which they are not, a “retard” is NOW your dumb friend who you are making fun of, and not an intellectually disabled person you never met. Get angry about something else. Removing the slur from the intellectually disabled is a good thing.
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What's going on with the respectful dissent controversy?
What's going on with the respectful dissent controversy? - Lemmy.World
I was gonna go try to feel righteously validated for a pet peeve of mine over at Unpopular Opinion, but it’s closed. Then I saw this post [https://lemmy.world/post/24138325] and it describes some concerns with moderation policies, but the link it references has a bunch of crossed-out text, and I was just wondering if someone is willing to write out the detailed explanation of what happened and what the controversy is.
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If I want to make a lemmy community, in what ways does the instance I make it on matter?
If I want to make a lemmy community, in what ways does the instance I make it on matter? - Lemmy.World
Primarily I’m wondering if certain instances have reputations that might color what people think about my community just by virtue of it being hosted on a particular instance. There’s also the question of instance-wide content moderation or something, not like I’m trying to be edgy, but like some instances might not like curse words or discussions about heavy topics like suicide, or something. Also I’m wondering if it’s somehow harder for people from other instances to find communities (I understand that subscribing is easy, but finding may be different?) Appreciate details…
Web site updates should always have a time and date, come on people...
Web site updates should always have a time and date, come on people... - Lemmy.World
I completely support corporations or public agencies going their own way on web updates rather than using a microblogging platform like Twitter, but for fucks sake it’s completely pointless to post an update without the time and date (and ideally and expiration). For example I was looking for trail conditions in a state park near me and I have no idea when the conditions posted are for. Now, I can go onto the web archive and figure it out, if I want to, but that’s not what most people will know how to do. Date everything.