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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Lot's of people avoid using the word retard. But that's hard on some people because the loss of that word can decimate their whole vocabulary.

I support your freedom of expression; language is hard, and some people need verbal prognostics to make their point. It's rude to pick on people just because of a diminished capacity.

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

By calling out the decline of Trumps cognitive abilities, I offended subset of people who should in my view never ever be called a "retard"?

I do apologise to anyone who still wants to identify as one.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It’s just not necessary to use slurs. That’s all.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i'm torn. we shame them away from using this one, they'll just move onto the next. it's not the meaning behind the word that they like, it's the fact that it's a slur. hence the euphemism treadmill.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

That still doesn’t mean that we need to use it.

Also, we absolutely should shame these people. Let them move onto the next one. We will shame them for that too. Bigots don’t get to have things.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

My vocab is diminished because I don’t use slurs? That sounds like an incredible trade off. I think I will keep it up.