this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
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TIL ‘41’ has a long history as a slur for homosexuals
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/10/number-41-became-anti-gay-slur-mexico/
Is every word and number going to get colonised as dogwhistle until all of language has become a minefield ? Why do we even give air to this shit ? It seems to me acknowledging it is to give it power and legitimacy.
I mean I just watched this explanation of the "sneed seed and feed" dogwhistle and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUbo0IeWTY4 It doesn't seem to signal more than vague group membership appartenance. I think the thing with dogwhistle is they expire as they diffuse. Like teens drawing swastikas and penises just because it's offensive. This "41" is from more than a century ago. I think with these heirloom dogwhisles, you at least should check how much they really mean it are if they're just shitposters. You don't want the whiteknight stonethrowers to get bogged down by collateral damage, playing into their game and catching all the flak from "them"
They've already ruined a perfectly good mustache, forever.
We need a Ted Lasso-like character to neutralize it.
Not a common one, at least not in the US.
in the US it's an anti trans reference to the % of trans people who had suicidal ideation in one study
I have never heard of it in this context before this post and I live in the us.
Just because you have never heard of something doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
You were one 15 second search away from not being a cunt on the internet but here you are, being proud of how ignorant you are.
People from these groups get pretty well informed about various dogwhistles and slurs that the general population won't, because they're used to harass us.
I heard the number 43 is code for marijuanas