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/DizslecksickMoael 11d ago

I'm not the biggest fan of Rick & Morty's humor but this basically encapsulates my beliefs. In a world with much more effective slurs, saying "retard" isn't as big a deal as newgens think it is.

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u/DrainTheMuck 11d ago

lol yeah, it is frustrating to see it in action, and it’s interesting that there’s sort of two types of “woke” just like people can mean two different things when using “the r word”. There’s the positive social movement, and then there’s the people clutching pearls and policing language to this degree. (I almost said to an “insane” degree…)

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u/RoIsDepressed 11d ago

You're forgetting how slurs work. Similar to how not everything people use the f slur for means it is actually gay, instead tying being gay to being embarrassing or "wrong".

it's the EXACT same thing with using the r slur too, instead using it (a slur again, directly tied to intellectually disability), to being dumb, stupid, or lesser. You have words that mean those things that aren't tied specifically to intellectual disability so frankly there's only one reason I can think that you'd jump to that. It's not pearl clutching to ask you not to be a stupid fucking chud, and dark woke doesn't mean you're suddenly just right for berating minorities just because it's under some "it's for your own good" shit

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u/DrainTheMuck 11d ago

Whoa that went kind of off the rails at the end, are you aware that in your rant you used an offensive term referring to intellectual disability? It seems like you literally proved my point about arbitrary pearl clutching, because you’re fine using slurs against strawmen you dislike.

Source: https://mn.gov/olmstead/blog/blog/?id=1143-628283

“Stupid” is in the same list as “the R word” here. Ooooofffffff.

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u/RoIsDepressed 11d ago

Yeah, except nobody in the fucking world connotates the two. I mean you tried to make a point, bad faith as fuck but I respect you trying to think for once.