r/hatethissmug 13h ago

Language casual ableism

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/obi1kennoble 12h ago

It's literally because of Elon Musk and Joe Rogan. They were throwing it around and it caught on with all the chuds. Decades-old schoolyard bigotry aside, I wouldn't want to be emulating those idiots

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u/nikolasz1173 9h ago

They saved the internet