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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨greentext@sh.itjust.works⁩

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  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How old are they that they called labeled as ableist? This would not have happened in 2000s elementary

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    • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know - the term “ableist” has certainly spiked in popularity in the last ten years or so, but even in the 90’s you’d get a bollocking for throwing around the terms “mong” or “spaz” or “flid” within earshot of a teacher.

      I mean, I can see why - I hate the terms myself, but when you’re in single digits of age, it’s just used as another derisory term rather than a specific slight at someone’s physical or mental development challenges.

      It still got you in hot water if you were daft enough to get caught shouting it though.

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      • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m not native and I discovered the word by reading a Lemmy community’s rules.

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      • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I had a teacher in the 90’s call me a spaz.

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      • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Were you in a big city? Mine was pretty small. I wonder if that has to do with it? I never heard the word until maybe high school or college

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    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hm.

      books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ableist&yea…

      They could be in 4th grade in 2010, and be 25 now posting this. I could also believe that elementary school teachers could be among the first 5% of people to adopt a new super-inclusive type of brand new lefty language that’s just starting to be used for a new type of friendly inclusiveness in 2000.

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      • Kitathalla@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        elementary school teachers could be among the first 5% of people to adopt a new super-inclusive type of brand new lefty language

        Elementary school teachers are also more likely to crack down on any sort of insulting language in general. I remember when I was a kid in the 4th grade, our teacher would punish us for asking, “So?” So was short for ‘So what?’ At the time it was (sometimes properly, give me a break, Mrs. H) a way to insultingly say that someone else’s statement was meaningless.

        It wasn’t because it was ableist, or anything else you could point a finger to except insulting, and teachers head that sort off interaction off early.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Makes sense.

        I’m about 10 years older and have never heard the term in person, only in lefty online communities like Lemmy. I even took an ASL class from a deaf person (highly recommend, though maybe my teacher just rocked) as an adult with my SO, and we didn’t even use the term “ablism,” but instead just “hearing” to describe people who aren’t deaf (so the concept, not the term). That would’ve been mid to late 2010s, IIRC.

        Couple that with the claimed suspension in 4th grade, and I have serious doubts any of this happened. To get suspended, you need to be starting fist fights or something, even cussing or intentionally insulting people would probably only land normal detention.

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      • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Interesting!

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Could be that they didn’t say ableist at the time it happened but anon remembers it that way it just tells it that way.

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      • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        True, can’t trust it anyways

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was in 1st grade for 9/11 and I’m too damn old for 4chan (30)

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  • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Anon after getting back:

    My name’s Richard

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    Retarded Richard

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    • M137@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nems Bernd, Jeums Bernd.

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  • Zozano@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Principal:

    “OK this kid is fucking based, I’ll reward him with a week off”

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  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When I went to school, one kid during that exercise said that his name was so-and-so, and one thing he liked to do was stick his thumb up his ass.

    He was known as “Thumbs” for the next four years, possibly longer. I actually don’t think I ever learned his name, he was just Thumbs.

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    • superduperpirate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I knew a kid who was caught beating his meat on a school trip, and was thereafter known as Spanky.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Surely older than 4th grade, puberty for boys tends to not happen until 6th or 7th grade.

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Definitely a learning experience for that kid.

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  • MrShankles@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can see it now… I’m called first; I don’t know what an adjective is (I still struggle); I panic from the social anxiety of stage fright; I awkwardly try to say anything at all, so I can sit the fuck down and move on; so I say, “Really Richard”

    I’m told that’s an adverb, and I need to use an adjective. Now I’m pale as a ghost and about to faint from the panic. I stutter, “Richmond Richard?”. I’m informed that’s a proper noun, so I quickly try again (visibly sweating) spouting, “Reading Richard!”… and am told to sit down, because that was a noun and I’ve now been assigned extra homework on grammar.

    Someone snickers and says “Retarded Richard” in a low voice. The entire class laughs, the teacher is doing their best not to crack a smile (but I can tell), and I am henceforth known as “Retarded Richard” until graduation and beyond.

    Adverbs, adjectives, verbs… prepositions! I’m in a living nightmare. There is no waking up from this. I am, forever, “Retarded Richard”

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    • m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      At least Removed Richard keeps it as an adjective instead of making it a verb.

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  • serenissi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why your screenshot looks more beautiful than usual greentexts?

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    • Trollception@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They used an AI upscaler to enhance the details

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      • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What is my purpose? You enhance shitposts.

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Zoomed in before screenshotting

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  • MintyAnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This actually happened, btw

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are you Richard?

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    • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      a 9 yo kid getting a week suspension at the start of the school year simply and only because he called himself ‘removed’. idts

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      • MintyAnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah I was there in the room I was the teacher

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s dumb dick to his friends

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      crummy cock to his acquaintances

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wonder what Zelda came up with for that introduction

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “Xylophone Zelda”. Really fucked over Xenias introduction

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Uh, xylophone doesn’t start with Z, back to kindergarten until you learn your letters.

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      • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Gotta be xenophobic Xenia now, sorry, I don’t make the rules

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t know what’s worse, naming your kid after a fox that uses Linux or a suburb of Dayton.

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      • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “Zyougottabekiddingme Zelda”

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    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      depending how she’s feeling, zany, zen or zealous?

      Or zonked, if she smoked a fat dart beforehand

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Zealous?

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Zooted Zelda (she on coke)

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      • TwanHE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Would zooted even work in that case? Don’t usually see it used for uppers

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Zesty ofc

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    • Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Zazzy

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  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As an outsider, it’s wild to me that you can/could get suspended from school so easily.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can’t.

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    • MintyAnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m concerned but someone must tell you: Greentexts are not real stories

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      • Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I know they are unverified stories. But I have spent a decent amount of time in the US and everyone I know personally have a similar story of someone being suspended for something stupid.

        This is simply a catalyst for those memories of mine.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The schools I as at growing up you wouldn’t have gotten this as a punishment until like your 10th strike. You’d get increasingly severe suspensions. One to five days in school suspension then one to five days out of school suspension. Then you got expelled. It’s possible OP doesn’t remember correctly how long they were suspended. It’s also possible this post is a lie, but I’m being generous.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As an American, you’d have to have a conversation with the principal and possibly be forced to hang out with the special needs kids at the school I went to. And yeah the administration would not have seen the ablism inherent in making the disabled kids spend time with a dipshit who just said something offensive about them despite them not having done anything wrong

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Growing up in the 80s and 90s that’s what the teacher would have called us.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can’t come up with anything better, can anyone else?

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    • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We had a dude called Richard in primary school that went blank at the thought of a nickname. Obviously, as responsible classmates we helped him out, and he was christened Romanian Richard.

      Richard was not Romanian, nor did he have any ties to the fine country of Romania.

      Whatever inexplicable logic that was at play here, directed that he should have the last ten seconds of the Taz-Mania theme sung to him repeatedly, sorta like:

      “Richard Romanian,

      Richard Romanian,

      Richard Romanian,

      We mean you!”

      Before making the appropriate Taz noises finishing with a raspberry in close proximity to his face. What was really weird, was that Richard didn’t appreciate this new fame and form of address, which was a real shame because everyone else did and it was highly entertaining before teachers got involved, parents got called, and it was saved for the days when Richard was really being a oil-fired arsehole.

      These were the days before we drew the line from Richard to Dick, you must understand.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Reliable

      Respectable

      Resplendent

      Remarkable

      Relativistic

      Reprehensible

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      • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Raunchy

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    • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Reasonable Richard

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    • Hoimo@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Rich Richard too obvious for you ri**ards?

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    • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Daring Dick

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      • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I went to school with a kid called Richard Dick.

        Nice lad, but somebody hadn’t thought that through.

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Dirty Dick

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    • MrShankles@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Deadly Dick

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      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Delicious Dick

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  • jimmux@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They called him Rich-tard for short.

    But he got the last laugh when rich 'tards ruled the country.

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  • rony4102@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for the good chuckle

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