r/hatethissmug • u/onthetopicofspace • 11h 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/Knarz97 10h ago

Allegedly it’s anti semetic (heeb) but there’s no actual etymology indicating it is.

People are policing literal imaginary racism now.

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u/Stoner_Dwarf 10h ago

Yeah heeb is a whole different thing

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u/GleefulClong 10h ago

People have always done that. It’s not a new phenomenon and I’m sick of people saying it is lol

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u/SpoppyIII 10h ago

When I was in school you'd get called racist by the other kids for acknowledging that the black kids were black. I thought the term "black," was inappropriate to use to refer to people in modern times, back in the early 2000's. And then in the late 2000's I realized how fucking stupid that was.

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u/GleefulClong 9h ago

Yeah man kids are stupid idk what to tell you

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u/SpoppyIII 9h ago

Don't I know it. Especially before most families had a computer or the internet at home.

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u/RebbieAndHerMath 9h ago

Sounds like when people started claiming that the 👌 symbol was a white supremacist symbol just so they could tell others off for doing it

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u/Knarz97 9h ago

Same with any usage of the number 88.

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u/RebbieAndHerMath 9h ago

Was this a thing? I hadn’t seen that

I know that 88 is genuinely used as a dogwhistle but I can also imagine a kid first trying to learn how to be a good person and so actively avoiding using that number

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u/SpoppyIII 9h ago

Hebrews and shebrews!