I read your argument, it was stupid. I thought it was important to point out.
Why was it stupid? First of all it is only a slur to someone who is mentally delayed. It wasn’t being used in that context and it is clearly not punching down. It is an argument an idiot would make. Cheers!
That’s a poorly reasoned take. Slurs are only slurs if someone’s around to hear it? That’s definitely not how that works. Additionally, groups that are not necessarily mentally delayed (waves in autistic) get painted with that brush too. So even by your poor reasoning, it was a slur because I was there to see it.
It was also definitely punching down. It was the classic usage “Group X is like group Y and they’re bad because of the features they share”, specifically difficulty understanding new information in this context. Explain how it wasn’t that? How it didn’t draw an equality between them based upon the expressed undesirable feature of learning difficulties, thus implying that the intellectually disabled are less because of it?
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nope, it is my well informed opinion after reading all your comments. Your take is incredibly stupid and ignores context.
maniclucky@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well with such a compelling, well reasoned argument, I’ll have to concede. Well done.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I read your argument, it was stupid. I thought it was important to point out.
Why was it stupid? First of all it is only a slur to someone who is mentally delayed. It wasn’t being used in that context and it is clearly not punching down. It is an argument an idiot would make. Cheers!
maniclucky@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s a poorly reasoned take. Slurs are only slurs if someone’s around to hear it? That’s definitely not how that works. Additionally, groups that are not necessarily mentally delayed (waves in autistic) get painted with that brush too. So even by your poor reasoning, it was a slur because I was there to see it.
It was also definitely punching down. It was the classic usage “Group X is like group Y and they’re bad because of the features they share”, specifically difficulty understanding new information in this context. Explain how it wasn’t that? How it didn’t draw an equality between them based upon the expressed undesirable feature of learning difficulties, thus implying that the intellectually disabled are less because of it?
So, yeah. You’re taunting me. Really badly.