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TIL about V-Coding the systemic rape of trans women in US prisons to try to “calm” violent men. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 5 days ago* by to c/til@lemmy.ca
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[–] 41 points 5 days ago (13 children)

No. The US is very much a first world country. It's literally the definition. It is the US.

And this is what a capitalist country does. This is what first world countries look like.

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  • [+] -8 points 5 days ago (12 children)

    Nah. The Scandinavian countries are what I consider true first world.

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  • [–] 36 points 5 days ago (10 children)

    Help us out: what do you think “First World,” “Second World,” and “Third World” actually mean? The terms referred to cold war political alignment: the U.S.-led bloc, the Soviet-led bloc, and countries aligned with neither. It was not a tidy ranking from rich and civilized to poor and backward.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Yes those were the original definitions but colloquial usage has shifted from the original meaning. Although these days the preferred terminology is developed/developing/under developed.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    under developed is only preferred in academic circles, particularly economics. most other places refer to such places as "over-exploited"

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    I agree with you and you are correct but this is linguistic prescriptivism, which is one of the things the what is a woman crowd cling to

    but the other people using third wold country to mean allows sex abuse makes my skin crawl

    Examine your preconceived ideas, before they examine you

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (2 children)

    I did not mean third world to mean that, but rather in the colloquial sense of how much a country takes care of its people.

    Understood that so many on this platform strictly care about historical definitions and prescriptive language policing though

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

    Being more concerned with the words used than the intended meaning is an internetism that harms us all. I'm guilty of this too..

    It's tricky though, because words have meaning- and that meaning really depends on context. Not just the context in which it's spoken, but also the context is the one speaking it. And often people online who think they're arguing are really just misunderstanding each other's definitions.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    You're absolutely right. In this instance I mistakenly thought it was obvious for most that I did not mean im the strict literal definition. Oh well, no big deal

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  • [–] -1 points 5 days ago* (1 child)

    I mean it in the colloquial sense based on how well taken care of the people are. No I am not writing a dissertation. This is a discussion on a message board where people may use hyperbole to make their opinion clear

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