Animated_beans@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•'Black Americans for Trump' event a 'major bust' that featured 'a sea of white people'English
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3 months agoYou are right. Turning an adjective into a noun tends to make it more degrading because you’ve focused on the characteristic rather than the person. That’s why referring to people as “blacks” or “females” feels icky. It’s why we saw “deaf people” and not “the deafs” or “old people” and not “the olds.”
It’s both. They make it so you want to speed so they can generate revenue. Wide lanes and low speed limits can yield a lot of tickets