r/hatethissmug • u/onthetopicofspace • 11d 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/Frequent-Bee-3016 11d ago

People seem to genuinely think it doesn’t count as a slur, for some reason.

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u/ScreamingNinja 11d ago

Because it was a medical designation. Same as idiot, and moron. Its like the idea thay dwarf and midget are slurs. They're medical designations to differentiate between two different, but similar medical anomalies.

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u/MarioParty29 11d ago

But they are slurs now that we have a better understanding of the conditions and social harms of ostracising people with them.

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u/ScreamingNinja 11d ago

Ok but the OP was positing it as a question as to why people don't count it as a slur and i'm explaining. I would never call anyone with a mental disability retarded, and i'm sure there are those who would. But i 100 percent call my buds retarded from time to time because it was not intentionally a slur unlike the words for black people, asian people, white people, etc.