• lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      71·
      9 days ago

      Don’t worry. The common meaning is friend. Everyone knows. Just like smol snek etc.

      There are a lot of words that also have a bad meaning. A lot depends on context.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
        101·
        9 days ago

        I have literally never run into that until now. That seems like a dog whistle pitched so high, not even rodents can hear it.

        • 9point6@lemmy.world
          13·
          9 days ago

          Well I’m happy for you, but that doesn’t change that Nazis are using it as a dog whistle. And FWIW I’m unfortunate enough to know it’s not even a particularly niche one—it’s been pretty popular with edgelords for a few years now

            • 9point6@lemmy.world
              12·
              9 days ago

              I’ve just replied to you elsewhere, but dude

              This is not censorship

              This is one regular person telling another regular person that they might accidentally be doing something racists do as a shibboleth

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
        91·
        9 days ago

        Lmao, by that logic you wouldnt be able to use any 3-5 letter words because every one of those probably has some acronym associated with it, that means something bad.

        • 9point6@lemmy.world
          12·
          9 days ago

          I don’t think Nazis are actively using every acronym, c’mon you know that’s silly.

          They use this one though.

          It’s like saying 1844 isn’t a bad number, because numbers aren’t bad—unfortunately more often than not, when you see it, it’s not used innocently.

            • 9point6@lemmy.world
              12·
              9 days ago

              I didn’t come up with this, they did

              I would love this to not be the case, but it’s just naïve to ignore the reality of the shitheads that are out there

              Their whole thing is existing in the grey area between harmony and incongruity