This post reminded me of that old Louis CK bit on not liking the term “N Word” because it transfer the burden of saying the actual word from the speaker to the listener’s brain
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Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 day agoAssuming OOP said ‘retarded’, that doesn’t fit their message well does it?
glimse@lemmy.world 1 day ago
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Louis CK’s bit on the word “retarded” is pretty damn good too.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Joke’s on him my brain is always saying it 😎
crowbar@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
How about your heart?
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
Speaking sumerian.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
depicted as
Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
it’s called context switching, within 4chan the r-word is an honorific rather than a slur.
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 1 day ago
There is nothing wrong with the world retard, don’t let corpos implement their double speak.
yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Americans and their hatred of random words. Lmao.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’ve grappled with “retard” & “bitch” (made a thread about it a couple months ago too, trying to form/reform my opinion).
Clearly we have to be careful with any messages industry pushes. With that said -
What do you think about these statements from Special Olympians?
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yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 1 day ago
I appreciate your good faith response. I see and empathize with your perspective. To play devil’s advocate, you can’t control whether a group of people decide, out of the blue, to internalize hurtful language that isn’t aimed at them. The N-word had a very specific target and a very specific history. The word “retard” does not. It basically has the same vernacular trajectory as “moron,” or “idiot.” Why aren’t those synonyms verboten? I don’t like inauthenticity, and I don’t like people getting offended at things that have nothing to do with them.
Cypher@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
To break down my response to this
There are people with high intelligence and those with low intelligence, bandying about with different words will never change that. Intelligence is crucial in social, economic and evolutionary terms. They are correct no one would ever want to be lacking in intelligence because it would only make life worse. There will always be a need for a word to describe someone of lower intellect, or describe an argument or position as being thoughtless, in order to dismiss the person or idea as quickly as possible with as little engagement possible. Preferably while using small words so they understand.
You can still say they have a room temperature IQ but they might not get the meaning…
I agree, and I would not want someone with an IQ of 70 to be in the military, or to be a teacher, or a doctor, as each of those scenarios would likely result in disaster not just for the 70 IQ individual but for everyone impacted by them.
Yea no. This “everyone is special” bullshit just isn’t how the world works. The universe doesn’t care about you, the world is a harsh place where the unfit died early deaths until really intelligent people worked out how to increase food production, developed medicines, surgeries and hygiene.
You only need to look up the etymology and history of clinical usage of both dumb and stupid to realise they were used to describe the same groups of people and behaviours during different time periods. More bullshit on the treadmill.
I refuse to censor the word retard while moron, stupid, dumb and idiot are considered fine. To censor a synonym of acceptable words, is to put it bluntly, fucking retarded.
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 1 day ago
That is true, if you use it against disabled poeple. I only use it against moronic able poeple who should know better.