[orange] Okay sure, we did massacre the economy and make ourselves look untrustworthy and unstable, but…

[zoom on orange grinning] We can now say slurs at work without facing consequences

[newspaper clipping] Corporate America embraces a new era of conservatism under Donald Trump. Bankers and financiers say that Trump’s victory has empowered those who felt they had to self-censor or change their language to avoid offending younger colleagues, women, minorities or disabled people. “I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say [r-slur] and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.”

[orange, celebrating] Worth it! I see this as an absolute win!

https://thebad.website/comic/legalized_slurs

  • pivot_root@lemmy.world
    14·
    4 days ago

    It’s almost guaranteed they wouldn’t be able to handle it if the roles were reversed. Apologies for actually using the word here, but to drive home the point: let’s see how Jackass Jim likes being called a “retarded cunt” every day.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      Absolutely guaranteed. I went to a right wing private college for undergrad (I was young and stupid, now I’m not young). They had this message board where you could ask the student paper’s editors questions and blah blah. Part of the college identity was about being weird. I made a clever joke about that in a question. Because I had hinted that the student body might be weird, oh my gods not only the editors but the entire message board list its shit for like a week. Having entirely lost their sense of proportion and lived up to the pejorative.

      And that was just being called weird. Someone actually throwing stones? Holy fuck that could actually get entertaining.