Quote:
Originally Posted by loramin
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Actually yeah. Calling someone stupid isn't saying "you're the same as a person with a mental disability, and it's bad to be a person with a mental disability" ... because there are plenty of non-disabled stupid people [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Thus, "stupid" is preferable.
You can look at it like "the thought police are coming to take my words away!" ... or you can look at it like "some people have mental disabilities; do I really need to risk making one of those people's life worse, if they hear/read me using that word?"
|
I can't see their posts normally because I have them on ignore. And the posts you quoted reminded me why that is. That is the weirdest take I've ever seen and extremely odd to see someone dig their heels in over why they can call someone retarded instead of being like oh my bad...