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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The term is still acceptable, just not on US social media. You also should say "unalive" instead of "dead", it's all idiocy.

I think you can still say "idiocy"

I'm not sure if the word police phenomenon is a USA thing or world-wide... hopefully other countries don't divert themselves with such needless, constant drama over language.