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i literally know people like that. guy that got banned off twitter repeatedly for fighting homophobes but won't drop the r slur. people are wild sometimes.
This is like everyone born between 1985 and 1992 lol.
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Under Trump it was verboten in left spaces to say the r word, and then Biden got elected and overnight all the stupidpol types breathed a sigh of relief and went back to dropping slurs. It’s like they all had to pretend to be good to differentiate themselves from Trump but then the pressure disappeared and they returned to their default setting
Yeah. Because it doesn’t matter to a lot of people. Idiot. Moron. Imbecile. Cretin. It’s just a new word to mean the same thing. People getting offended are just dummies imo. Society will just create a new word for it eventually. Or use one of the older ones people have been desensitized to being offensive.
People getting offended are just dummies because....? I don't remember the kids who needed special assistance in elementary school being called cretin or imbecile when being harassed but i do remember the r slur.
Not up to you what or why people get offended but this one specifically has real passion behind it for a lot of people.
Ignoring the rest of my statement. Classic.
It was irrelevant
There’s a qualitative difference between an able bodied person who just isn’t very bright or doesn’t put a lot of thought into things VS. a person with a mental disability. Idiot, stupid, dumb, etc. in the modern context are used to describe the former, while the r-word is used to describe the latter
The words were all created to explain the latter.
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Yeah, there is literally so much acceptable ableist language out there that only condemning the one word that’s the most phonetically pleasing to insult with is kind of a farce
Lots of ableist language is acceptable, therefore the word with arguably the most contemporary relevance that offended the most people should also be acceptable.
Is this what you're saying or, no? If it is, it's nonsensical unless you place the funny phonics over the mental well-being of a disadvantaged group