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The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use
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Speaking of facts
Now, as for actual discussion to be had, unfortunately our language is entirely coded in slights towards different groups of people. In calling someone "a sinister villain who's a part of a cabal", I've called them a left (handed) farmer who is Jewish.
At some point we do need to accept that these negative words, which are at their fundamentals, slights to certain groups of people, have taken on a new meaning, and that their misuse as slights against those people only really applies contextually. I do think that terms like "stupid" and "idiot" have achieved that level of shift.
Feel free to disagree with me of course, I'm not here to tell you you or your experience is wrong, and I'm more than happy to have an actual discussion on this. ❤️
if left handed people were still marginalised your comparison might be valid, but they aren't so it isn't.
No we don't, especially since no, they haven't
you would be wrong
https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/stupid-is-an-ableist-slur-breaking-down-defenses-around-ableist-language-liberating-our-words/
yet that's exactly what you are doing.
You should be able to remove a few words from your vocabulary to reduce harm to already marginalised people, without arguing about it or trying to "logic" your way out of it. It isn't a big ask, but rather the very bare minimum.
Uh, I'd rather good faith discussion instead, actually.
Just noticed you're using kbin.social. Checks out.
Does kbin.social have some kind of reputation or something? I'm not defending the commenter BTW.
I've never noticed us having one before, I think (hope) it's just that one person.