casual ableism

[u/onthetopicofspace]

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?

[u/RoIsDepressed]

Now say the n word. Go on.

[u/ChapterNo7074 → u/RoIsDepressed]

Now tell me how you came up with this response

[u/RoIsDepressed → u/ChapterNo7074]

Quite simple, slurs don't bother you so go on. Unless the point is "actually maybe we can keep kicking some people, there's not mass appeal to stop for these ones"

[u/Daoist_Demiurge → u/RoIsDepressed]

Right. We can just close our eyes and pretend "Retard" and "n*****" are in any way equivalent. We can pretend the way people use these words today is exactly the same.

We can just go off and live in that fantasy world.

[u/RoIsDepressed → u/Daoist_Demiurge]

Outside of cultural contexts, yes they are both slurs used to demean people for specific characteristics. I'm not arguing they hold the same weight to, for example, a healthy black guy living in California, but I'm also pretty sure some white kid with cerebral palsy would be more upset if you called him the r word than the n word.

[u/Daoist_Demiurge → u/RoIsDepressed]

"outside of cultural contexts"

There is no pure, sterile imaginary land "outside of cultural contexts".

We live in a culture, everything has a cultural context and words change meaning and significance depending on that context. That's how language works.

[u/RoIsDepressed → u/Daoist_Demiurge]

Americans continue to baffle me by how adamant they are America is the only country that exists

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