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garbagebagel@lemmy.world 4 days agoIt’s not that people are offended for the mentally challenged, it’s the fact that people started using it to refer to people who were not mentally challenged but were just acting a specific way. In this way equating being mentally challenged with being stupid (or whatever else was implied by it).
It’s kind of fucking rude to equate having a certain disability with being stupid.
People used to use the word a lot in this sense. At some point, that became unacceptable so people stopped using the word in this sense. And now, because less people use it in an offensive sense, people think it’s okay to start doing it again without (as the case is proven by OP) realizing what it does in the long term.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 4 days ago
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 4 days ago
If you think that mentally challenged people dont understand when someone is mocking them, or that its okay to mock someone just because they dont understand it, then you are the problem.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Not mocking them, honestly. But comparing them with someone else when that someone else behaves or thinks in a diminished capacity. And maybe that isn’t very nice, but it is objective. That someone else can obviously comport themselves better and apply a little more brain power, to avail themselves of the very advantages they have. When you compare an adult someone’s behavior or thinking to a child, are you offending the child?
db2@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The same thing happened with stupid, idiot and dumb. They were clinical words.