• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      23 days ago

      The upvotes tell a different story than your manufactured narrative, which was pushed with a lot of money around ten to fifteen years ago to villlify a word.

      Think about this: Why is it alright to call someone a moron, or an idiot, or an imbecile? Nobody ever goes after these, and they are more often used to denegrate people based on their intellect.

      This entire “r-word” campaign is very stupid. By the way, there’s another one I just used. I bet you use that one, too, don’t you?

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        23 days ago

        You’re right dude, ableist slurs are bad and we should move past them

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          As someone who is clinically mentally disabled, I’ve never been offended by this so long as it’s not targeting a human being (being used in the pejorative to describe a neurotically person.) Why does it offend you? I’m genuinely asking.

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        23 days ago

        I’m gonna just block you. I hope you take an English class someday and learn to pick apart that dumbass take, because I’m not doing it for you.

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          23 days ago

          I feel that you relating that word to the mentally handicap ( I assume) instead of the willfully ignorant speaks more about you than anyone else.

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            23 days ago

            Nah I got no issue with the word (unless its directed at an actual human person, which the meme is not). What I have an issue is with people who type paragraphs when they are told not to use that word. Gonna block you too by the way.

            Edit: cute cat, btw

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          23 days ago

          Here’s a free English lesson:

          Retard: To delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment.

          Edit: Oh, wow… you seem to agree with me, but you disliked that I wrote a four sentence reply to the use of it? You don’t seem to understand what a “paragraph” is, so I’m kind of glad you blocked me.