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I dunno why people are upset about this. I see the majority of people complaining about Dems "taking the high road" and avoiding dirty tactics like the Republicans take. "They should take the gloves off and get dirty on the low road", "fight at their level!" I read.
Then as soon as Crockett does take one glove off and makes one borderline offensive comment the reaction is largely, "ugh, no need to be ableist".
Guys, what the hell do you think the 'low road' is?
It doesn't start at breaking the law and blocking supreme court noms, it starts at political midslinging, and the dems are getting "wow that's going too far". Lol. They will not escalate to a higher level of personal risk such as breaking protocols and laws (as the R's do) if they're knocked back at the first rung. They see the public has a preference: protocol above results.
(I'm about to get replies about how mudslinging needs to be carefully crafted to avoid any offensive terms to any group now. Be real. That is not always possible)
'Useless sniveling little cunt'
That's literally all it'd take.
You don't have to be ableist to be insulting.
That would be deemed sexist, no?
No I don't think anyone is going to call a woman a sexist for calling a man a cunt.
Certainly not as much as they'd call her ableist for making fun of his wheelchair.
Someone on the left will absolutely, 100% call you out for using the term "cunt" as a pejorative, they will bring up how calling someone useless is ablest, and probably some story about how "sniveling" was used as a slur in 1642 on a small island off Wales.
Why? because we have an innate human response system to respond to dissent from our own "tribe" and as a result, people have learned to get attention by attacking their own tribe. They want to feel heard and feel special and know that if they offer some "counter point" they will seem "intellectually honest" and thus gain standing with their team, and again, we simply don't know how to tune out criticism from our own people and move forward. It's why we keep losing.
The right wins because they're too dimwitted to do this, they are mindless in their group support. They don't have the language skills to form intellectual opposition or to "call out" each other, they don't know how. This is all a great example of how nature doesn't necessarily design for intelligence, and being smart can be a survival disadvantage.
Congratulations on using 3 entire paragraphs to say absolutely nothing useful.
This reads like someone who's never talked to an actual leftist in real life. Please go touch grass.
About the kind of response I expected from the people who don't know how to be effective at all. Congratulations for accomplishing even less and making yourself out to be a generic zoomer who can't think of anything original.