• Zorque@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      It means the same thing, there’s just an extra two letters added to the end. Were you shocked every time you first saw a cat with a color you hadn’t seen before, too?

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          7 days ago

          … then don’t stab me repeatedly? I don’t know what you want. I thought I was having a discussion, not getting into armed combat.

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        They aren’t the same thing. “Third worlder” can be applied to a specific individuals that are from third world countries and, I suspect, will be applied to people not actually from the third world anyway.

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          Yes, it’s the same thing applied to a specific individual. Generalizing does not make it less offensive.