My most passionate take right now is that people should stop using the word ‘bum’ as a pejorative for homeless people so that we can unproblematically use it to refer to the athletes we need to slander.
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We want our feelings about bums to be pure, but the term is hollow and devoid of meaning in baseball except by association with the pre-Great Society threat of social death. its still less bad bc there are like 3x as many of the non-bum jobs available
People us that word for people that aren’t jerks that make too much money? Yuck. It is like the comeback of the r-word. Being terrible to make kind people sad.
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But also saying it apparently managed to keep me laughing as a 4 year old until I melted down.