... And it's a sodding STUPID term in my opinion. Some uptight anal-retentive PC wanker somewhere decided that to use proper nouns is 'insulting' to people. Oh you MUSTN'T say 'autist', or 'schizophrenic', or 'drug user', because apparently that 'reduces' the individual to the condition they suffer from / the behaviour they're engaging in, and makes that the only thing about them.
APPARENTLY. Because y'know I never met anyone who thought that until they were TOLD to think that.
OBVIOUSLY there's more to me than my drug use. But when you are talking to or about me IN THE CONTEXT OF my drug use, pray why would I be offended at being called a drug user -?
That's nothing but a straightforward mention of an objective FACT about myself.
... You will notice that this nit-picking language policing is ONLY applied when it comes to anything generally viewed as having a negative connotation, never neutral things. I mean I've yet to see anyone whining that joggers should PLEASE be called 'people who jog' and implying you're a horrible bigot if you find that unnecessary and ludicrous.
PS I'm a liberal (in the original sense of live and let live), I'm a far (traditional) leftist, I'm an XY male with an intersex condition, I am a drug user. I'm not afraid of mere words 'systematically discriminating' me and I have ZERO patience for all the current pussy-footing, ego-wanking identity politics bollocks.
Well think you are completely right on [
on what you wrote last at the end, the PS].
And about the nit picking. Bitch, Fuck, Junk, imo normal words when used in the proper context. Dutch like to swear using deadly diseases/ religions etc. which is acceptable here, but for someone from Polland, apperently shocking, too witness Dutch are pretty good at cursing. He reflected this to us, and ok he had a good point. Internet makes it eassier to misinterpret things, so logically its harder to get it right.
What to me was way more insulting was the NA, insisting drug use is a disease/ sign of weak personality. That sounded really degrading and outdated info btw. Or how they treated the people in Detox; as 2-nd class people. But most do not listen to free advice.
That remark you refer to, PWUD, was totally unknown to me [i prefer a person intrigued by the effects of drugs to a high degree more].
So tried to turn a serious reply into a puzzle/ or a joke, violent behaviour never got humans very far. Seen this happen a lot lately personal attacks, hairsplitting, derailing threads and provocating other Bluelighter's for ...?
PS. "'reduces' the individual to the condition they suffer from / the behaviour they're engaging in, and makes that the only thing about them."
Also called stigmatizing, happens all the time over here/ real life. Polarizing people from each other and dividing them. Dont sound very good. Sounds like a.o. politics, are on the wrong road. Stigmas are based upon assumptions, prejudice not on human equality, facts or the law.
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