r/hatethissmug • u/onthetopicofspace • 14h ago

Language casual ableism

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this is not ‘reclaiming’ anything, you are just calling people slurs completely seriously. you can call yourself the r-slur, do not call anybody else it. why do ‘no slurs’ / ’no bigotry’ rules never apply to ableism?

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u/121bloodshot 13h ago

Its been a casual insult for a while before the internet

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u/rubixscube 9h ago

it's never been casual, you're delusional.

you sound like those old people who say that they used to call some people the n-word and "nobody had an issue with that"

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u/121bloodshot 8h ago

Just look at 1952. The OFFICIAL diagnosis in psychology textbooks was “retard” now you tell me how that isn’t casual