The name seems a little insensitive.

mikenew 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The side effect of trying to enforce this kind of sensitivity is that you make certain things taboo to talk about. And this is a good example of something that should be easy for someone to talk or even joke about because it makes dipping into that conversation much easier.

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notfed 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Is there a name for this? I think about this all the time. I've always had a theory that some offensive words may actually be persisting longer solely because we essentially calcify their definitions and never allow them to evolve into new less offensive meanings.

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swader999 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is well researched. See the Werther Effect. Casual, trivial, glamorized, or humorous framing behaves like contagion exposure.

	▲	rootusrootus 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The Werther Effect seems to be all about media reporting? All the reputable sources I could easily find suggest that talking about suicide casually does not inspire it.

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sillywabbit 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How about Rogue-like Linux?

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tmtvl 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Ironman Linux.