Someday OP....
Someday you'll learn that some words have different meanings in different contexts...
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
Someday OP....
Someday you'll learn that some words have different meanings in different contexts...
Which reminds me, why don't more people refer to Elon Musk as an African American?
Oh, you.
Because that would imply that it's a human.
This whole borrowed/discovered outrage at normal terms from people who aren’t even the subject of the supposed slight (in combination with people who ARE the subject, and ARE NOT offended) is so tiresome.
I don't usually hear people referring generally to senior citizens in other countries though, and even if they did, wouldn't they still be senior citizens, just citizens of their respective country instead of America?
Definition 2 of Citizen from Merriam-Webster:
an inhabitant of a city or town especially : one entitled to the rights and privileges of a freeman
The term is used out of respect, not out of nationalism.