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Joe Rogan Slammed For Claiming Resurrection of Disability Slur Is 'One of the Greatest Cultural Victories' (www.latintimes.com)

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[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Nobody's "associating" anything. Nobody who's calling someone retarded has any thoughts in their head about people with the mental disorder. If you called them a downie, then you would probably have a point; as it's specifically worded to relate to downs syndrome.

But "retard" has come to be an amplification of the word "idiot". It's like the words big, bigger, biggest.

It's the "biggest" of "idiot".

So if I'm gonna call someone an idiot, my levels of idiot are: Idiot, Dumb-ass, and Retard. I'm just calling them the word that corresponds to being a gargantuan idiot. You can't use "gargantuan" because they don't even know what the words mean; so you use retard.

[–] AJ1@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

hey I have a question: how does everyone feel about "fucktard"? is that acceptable? it's not a direct insult to persons with developmental disabilities, but it does have a fairly specific connotation that could be useful in certain situations, plus it throws out an F-bomb to emphasize your anger.

but if that's too offensive for some folks I guess I can just keep using "fuckmouth", if that's easier on the ears.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

but if that’s too offensive for some folks I guess I can just keep using “fuckmouth”, if that’s easier on the ears.

fuck mouth might be too insensitive for those of us who have or don't have sex, so basically all of humanity actually.

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

I'm rolling dude! haha