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lemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read" (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 4 months ago by spujb@lemmy.cafe to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/impact/why-the-r-word-is-the-r-slur

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[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Try telling that to a text filter or a moderator on a power trip. They won't give a rat's ass about "to retard" meaning "to reduce or hold back." Even the linked article fails to make the semantic distinction when it calls for the elimination of the word.

If this comment disappears, it will have proven my point.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 40 points 4 months ago

it’s giving 6th grade locker room 😂😂😂

“dude look i found a way to say it and dude it’s allowed because it’s about airplanes”

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

And a bitch is a female dog, I know. There's a factor of intention, a.k.a mens rea, a.k.a guilty mind that separates right from wrong based on why a person does something. It's this sort of inconvenient nuance that dealing with absolutes doesn't allow.