cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10105454
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It’s 2024. Stop using that word. I know I don’t need to explain why.
Why idiot, imbecille and moron are okay but retard is off-limits? All of these words have been used in a psychological classification system in the past yet retard seems to be the only one people take issue with.
Stop arguing about what slurs are okay to use. The only rule around here is to be nice. If someone asks you to not use a word because it hurts them, the nice thing to do is to listen.
It’s more recent. Just the euphemism treadmill in action.
Basically, some people are clinically unintelligent out of no fault of their own, and we’d rather they not get caught in the crossfire when insults are being hurtled. The approach to that has been to try and avoid unintelligence-based insults, but it hasn’t worked, because it actually is just better to be smarter.
I don’t really have a better suggestion, though.
You could at least act ignorant rather than trying to logic your hatefulness
What makes you think I am cool with calling people hurtful names? Why are you trying to reason your way into using slurs? You can say what you want if you really want to die on this hill. But you aren’t immune from social blowback.
I can’t imagine getting so passionate about the ability to call somebody such a hateful term. But I guess we know a little bit more about what your priorities are. Though my guess would be that if I told you I was on the spectrum you would have a very different tone.
You’re free to go thru my post history and try to find examples of me calling people hurtful names. You just wont find any because that’s not how I behave and that’s not what my question is about.
My question is pretty simple; why this specific term? It feels so arbitrary. There doesn’t seem to be any logic behind it. I wont get mobbed if I call someone an idiot but for some reason retard is off limits. Why?
I don’t care about your post history. I am talking about what is in front of us right now.
Idiot is unkind and I personally avoid it but it is not on the same level and you know it. There is no debate here. You know what my argument is, you just don’t care. That is your prerogative. But you do not get to be shielded from judgment.
Clearly it is incredibly important to you to use ablest slurs. You go ahead and live your life the way you want. But you’re not going to get permission from me or anyone who objects. Welcome to social consequences dude I don’t know what else to tell you.
I feel like you’re completely ignoring my original question. Seeing that despite being controversial it has 12 upvotes and zero downvotes then maybe that’s an indication that it’s a valid question and I’m not the only one wondering the same thing.
If barely double digit vote counts are how you decide what is right and wrong then we have nothing to discuss.
Mine above you is 42/1 (I’m willing to bet that 1 is you but I’m too lazy to check) so there you go. Stop using the term because the numbers said so.
I’ll take that bet.
I haven’t made any moral statements about right and wrong. It’s a simple question about why something is the way it is. Simple question you refuse to engage with so no point in going any further with this.
Hey man I got 42 upvotes them the rules. You can’t say that word anymore. Sorry. I didn’t make the rules, you did.
This is boring now. Feel free to use ableist language. No one can stop you. Just get over the fact that no one owes you the time convince you otherwise or just brush past it. You’re being an ass and people will treat you like the ass you are being. Simple as that.
I’m done man. I wish you the best. Hopefully one day you say this to the wrong (or rather right I suppose) person and their reaction finally gets through to you.
Because language is fluid and changes with societal use. We don’t all defer to linguistic norms from hundreds or even thousands of years ago when literally everything about life would be alien to us now.
I’m sure you didn’t intend to post such a nice comment (based on the historical definition of the word)…