I think this was already a /pol/ thing that didn't take off. Recently we had some people trying to add 'Judeo-' as a prefix to everything. And some wanted to try to use Niger (the country) in a similar fashion.
The real howler is that they can't even really ban or censor accounts for using the word 'vinegar' because they have no real way of knowing who is using it as a euphemism for groids—except perhaps by discriminating over where they use it.
I can imagine a whole subreddit 'larping' as chefs talking about how some vinegar got 'cooked' or 'wasted', etc. It might even last longer than the subreddits in which people larped as Minecraft fans, e.g. r/CraftingLore.
Redefining words that already have current meanings is the way to go. It is easy to censor a new term, such as 'globohomo', simply because it is only the people who they want to censor who actually use it in the first place. It is easy to have a blanket ban on all uses of such terms, but plenty of 'normies' would fall afoul of a blanket ban on 'vinegar'.
Mershekel 0 points 2.9 years ago
I think this was already a /pol/ thing that didn't take off. Recently we had some people trying to add 'Judeo-' as a prefix to everything. And some wanted to try to use Niger (the country) in a similar fashion.
The real howler is that they can't even really ban or censor accounts for using the word 'vinegar' because they have no real way of knowing who is using it as a euphemism for groids—except perhaps by discriminating over where they use it.
I can imagine a whole subreddit 'larping' as chefs talking about how some vinegar got 'cooked' or 'wasted', etc. It might even last longer than the subreddits in which people larped as Minecraft fans, e.g. r/CraftingLore.
Redefining words that already have current meanings is the way to go. It is easy to censor a new term, such as 'globohomo', simply because it is only the people who they want to censor who actually use it in the first place. It is easy to have a blanket ban on all uses of such terms, but plenty of 'normies' would fall afoul of a blanket ban on 'vinegar'.