There’s a clear campaign against the mentally ill with the global rise of fascism. Lots of it shows up in anti homeless rhetoric, but you can see it in the MAHA and anti vaccination movements.

There’s no reason to use the word “r-tarded” to describe someone. As someone who’s worked with the intellectually challenged, it’s an insult to them to compare them with people who are willfully ignorant.

  • IronBird@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    lol, retard isnt even close to the n-word and it’s annoying as fuck when people try to compare the two.

    there’s a joke (john mullaney, i think?) that goes if you got two words…and one word you won’t even say…that word is the worse word