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LeftyLucie

(50 posts) Fri Nov 17, 2023, 11:44 PM Nov 2023

Let's Go Vermin -- I saw this on a T-shirt... [View all]

Should we embrace the fuckwad's terminology and thus try to defuse its impact? I remember one of my eighth grade students in 2016 calling herself an "adorable deplorable," and it made me want to puke. Or should we refuse to even acknowledge fuckwad's disparagement? Personally I wish the obesity in orange would simply keel over with a stroke. I would sleep better.

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Let's Go Vermin -- I saw this on a T-shirt... [View all] LeftyLucie Nov 2023 OP

I like it! yardwork Nov 2023 #1

Context. Words matter. czarjak Nov 2023 #2

Definitely agree with your next to last sentence. However, if I were young, "Vermin" sounds like a good band name. Silent Type Nov 2023 #3

I can't tell you hardly anything about the band other than that they exist, but... RockRaven Nov 2023 #4

Thanks, probably won't check them out. Sadly, I was young long before Vermin started in 1984. Silent Type Nov 2023 #5

I'm all for using it to make a new meaning for it to help our cause. Deuxcents Nov 2023 #6

It's like embracing the whole COL Mustard Nov 2023 #10

For the T-shirt: SmittyWerben Nov 2023 #7

This is kinda begging canetoad Nov 2023 #8

... trusty elf Nov 2023 #9

Get the bug spray. calimary Nov 2023 #11

Let's go Vermin "Supreme"? Layzeebeaver Nov 2023 #12

hitler used used the word vermin to describe political opponents orleans Nov 2023 #13

Exactly bdamomma Nov 2023 #18

Proud to be called Vermin LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2023 #14

I think we should continue to address serious issues and also LuckyCharms Nov 2023 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author Deminpenn Nov 2023 #16

I would diffuse this term bdamomma Nov 2023 #17