The idiocy goes right over their heads
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2025
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I'll never understand people who cannot understand the difference in language across different eras. Just because we know it's offensive now doesn't automatically default everyone who ever used it as being just as bad at all points in the past
I'm not sure if you're praising or condemning me.
We both agree that the term is seen as offensive now, but wasn't in the past.
My point was that even someone as enlightened as Vonnegut had a blind spot. That goes to the idea of 'conservative engineers' who are probably just repeating things they were taught without thinking about it.
If you were taught about the "massacre" at Little Big Horn all your life, it's hard to consider it from the other side.
I'm agreeing with you and just kind of generally rambling about the people who would be mad at Vonnegut in your post.
Kinda like the people upset that huckleberry finn has the n word in it