Some people don’t believe me when I try to warn them about the content creator grift. I don’t care, I’m coming for all of them if they start spouting shit like this to their audience. They have a responsibility towards their viewers.
Second time I see him tweet shit like this.
At this point he should just stop pretending he’s any sort of leftist. His mental health will thank him.
archive link so he can’t scrub it off the internet: https://archive.ph/XWZD6 (still loading as of posting but should be ready eventually)
Do they really care though if i use the word stupid instead of ret*arded ?
Is r*tard some kind of official name to designate them unlike stupid, like jew, dwarf, or n*gger, hence why it shouldn’t be used in the context of an insult ?
Well, w/e, ok then, it’s not as if i had any problem with the “mentally challenged” minority.
“they” are human beings
Now you’re juste ragebaiting me(, if not from the start) 🙄
Why does every discussion i have online ends up in a clash, even on Lemmygrad ?
I’m sorry, are you just poorly articulating yourself or is your position that you agree with the assertion that people with intellectual disabilities are “not human?”
For your own personal development: its a mixture of failure to empathize, poor articulation, and likely a lack of reading and socialization/experience.
That slur is used against people who are disabled. It was historically created for that purpose, too, in a medical setting by doctors.
Do doctors still call them ret*rd ? And if they now call them mentally challenged, then am i allowed to use mentally challenged as a slur against someone else ?
No… You’re an awful person and have no place in any leftist circle. This conversation is disturbing.
Then i’m allowed to insult someone by saying they’re stupid, but not by saying that they’re mentally challenged, otherwise it’s an ableist slur, i think i got it(, not sure).
I’ve been banned for that, because i’m apparently ableist, which i know i’m not but what i believe doesn’t matter. I won’t be coming back so you’ll say good riddance i guess, bye 🫶
You weren’t being called ableist. The language you were using is ableist. There is a difference. Not all criticism is a personal attack on you.
This is a childish overreaction. I’m sure the ban wasn’t meant to be permanent, just to give you some time to cool down. All you need to do is stop being so defensive, accept the comradely criticism and move on, and so will everyone else. You don’t need to win every argument or immediately throw a tantrum and leave over being called out when you are wrong about something.
Even if you still think you are right, this is a ML space. It behooves you to accept the democratic centralist consensus on this issue. Leave your ego at the door.
I’m technically doing ban evasion so i won’t stay long, but i can’t help but continue to be curious, sorry. I shouldn’t insult someone with the r-word because that’s ableist, i shouldn’t also say as an insult that they’re mentally challenged for the same reason, but i can say that they’re stupid, am i right ?
I’m not mocking you by asking this question, it may sound obvious to you but i live in France so we may not have that here( yet).
I’ve seen that it’s a slur, but i honestly don’t know if the r-word extend to the word “stupid”, since there’s no difference between these two medical terms(, my surprise can be understood i think).
Even words like dumb, stupid, imbecile, moron have always had an ableist subtext. But that subtext has somewhat eroded over time because we don’t call mentally disabled folks those in a clinical sense (except for dumb). I don’t like using these words myself but it’s not a big deal to use these words.
R*tarded meanwhile to this day means mentally disabled as a clinical category. It is always used as an insult and a pejorative. It has the implication that mentally disabled people are subhuman. This makes the term exclusionary and robs disabled people from the chance of being a part of the rest of the society, something that is their right. Even “mentally disabled” is an uncharitable descriptor. Most people labeled as such are just different and can contribute to the society just as much as a so called able people can given that they are accepted and accomodated for. Conditions where there is a full spectrum mental disability are a subset of all the conditions which are labelled as mental disability.
Then there is the issue that most people you are calling r*tarded are in fact not technically r*tarded. They are being asinine for some other reason. But if you call them r*tarded you are insulting, along with them, all the mentally disabled for no good reason. At best you are inconsiderate and at worst you think disabled people are subhuman which makes you an ableist.
Ok, that’s honestly weird, because the r-word simply means that they’re a bit more late than others(, it comes from the french ret*rder = to delay), while mentally disabled implies that they don’t have a mental world
And except for idiot(, mental age < 2-3 y.o.), imbecile(, 3-7 y.o.), and moron(, 7-12 y.o.), …
I genuinely don’t know why the r-word was an exception out of all these terms.
I also don’t know how the r-word can rob them of anything(, just like calling someone an idiot don’t seem to rob them of anything), but it manifestedly comes from a good intention.
I suppose that i can’t insult someone of being a son of a b*tch since that’d be insulting to sex workers, implying that the latter are “subhumans”. But i suppose that an insult like “piece of shit” is ok only because a shit isn’t conscious.
Let’s change our language to be less exclusive, why not. Let’s also change the mods so that they’re less of an asshole.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to explain all this in such a kind manner.