I don’t know about that. What I do is try to listen to why a group thinks a word is offensive.
The thing with “retard” is that it has been used to refer to people with mental disabilities for a very long time. By saying “republicans are retards” you say “rebilocsns are as stupid as people that were born with a mental disability”.
Thing is, people with mental disabilities are still people. There are goofy, snarky, nice, some are even quite big assholes. Many can be a lot of fun to interact with. They are just people, even if they are not as intelligent as you or me.
Referring to people as retarded, to me, means setting mentaly disabled people as the baseline for beeing idiots. And I just don’t think it’s fair to reduce them to something, they had no saying in what so ever. They didn’t choose to be born that way and they shouldn’t be reduced to just that.
Fuck. See, that was easy, no censoring necessarily at all.
As in: Fuck off for using the r-word.
The war on all words that describe a negative trait continues.
I promise whatever the goalposts are set to will be the next inappropriate term.
I feel highly offended by your use of the word “goalpost”
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mommodsI don’t know about that. What I do is try to listen to why a group thinks a word is offensive.
The thing with “retard” is that it has been used to refer to people with mental disabilities for a very long time. By saying “republicans are retards” you say “rebilocsns are as stupid as people that were born with a mental disability”.
Thing is, people with mental disabilities are still people. There are goofy, snarky, nice, some are even quite big assholes. Many can be a lot of fun to interact with. They are just people, even if they are not as intelligent as you or me.
Referring to people as retarded, to me, means setting mentaly disabled people as the baseline for beeing idiots. And I just don’t think it’s fair to reduce them to something, they had no saying in what so ever. They didn’t choose to be born that way and they shouldn’t be reduced to just that.
/rant I guess
Euphemism treadmill go brrr
Or people could just stop using slurs?
It’s not like there’s a short list of things to dislike about fascists without punching down on social minorities…
Is calling someone stupid a slur? Not saying that’s what the previous poster said, legitimate question
I don’t think so since stupidity is a trait not a slur afaik.
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Could you please not lump folks with learning and or intellectual disabilities with a bunch of spineless fascist traitors?
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