• underisk@lemmy.ml
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        2 days ago

        I learned pretty recently that “degenerate” has roots in eugenics so I try to avoid that one.

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          2 days ago

          Edward Gibbons used it quite a bit in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which was written sometime around 1750-ish, before the american revolution, the founding fathers all read it.