spujblemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read"
I asked a question about this after seeing it quite a bit here!
"Retard" & "bitch" in 2024: any words you avoid? - sh.itjust.works
Y’all use these words, or averse to them? Believe there’s any downsides to using them in the fediverse? As irreverent as I like to be, somebody or something has managed to train me to avoid these two words. For retard, it seemed common twenty years ago, then it seemed people took offense (outside of WallStreetBets), now I’ll see it occasionally highly upvoted here. btw, I’m pretty sure “don’t be a jerk” fits my m.o. better than “snowflake” but I’m always willing to update my perspective :) Privileged US male perspective ::: spoiler alt-text Lemmy comment exchange screenshot: What. The. Fuck? Have some class, bitch. — That last word isn’t in my vocabulary cuz potential sexism That piece of shit should have some class — You’re right. I shouldn’t have used that word. I can be more creative. — Cheers bitch ! :::
South Park did a whole episode about this with “fag” nobody is using the word to insult actual homosexuals (except hateful bigots I suppose) just like nobody us using the word “retard” to slur the disabled. (again apart from the bigoted assholes) if I say something that offends someone, then they can tell me and I’ll apologize. But I don’t need someone policing my language just in case someone might be upset by a word.
Great episode.
I think they 👇
need an example of someone being hurt to drive their point home.
@[email protected] do you have a ready example?
Aight this isn’t bad:
So I think we can be preemptively told not to say the word on social media. (RE: “if I…offend someone…I’ll apologize”) When you’re talking to your best friend in your car though it’s probably hard to demand you police yourself (in the example you never use the word in public, and neither you nor your friend ever will no matter how much you say it privately). So it shouldn’t be a thought crime kinda but probably appropriate to avoid it in public or unfamiliar company.
Curious what you think of that take spujb - “tree falls in the forest …”
when an entire disabled community gets together and tells abled people that the word carries hurt, that should be more than enough evidence. if that’s not enough for a person, my only suggestion is to look inward and ask why they are so quick to doubt the personal statements of lived experiences of thousands of disabled folks.
regarding the “tree falls in the forest” thing—i literally don’t care. arguing it just gives bad vibes; some arguments you lose the moment you try to debate bro them. like i remember this one streamer who was like “but what if i said the n word in the vaccum of space where no light or sound could escape” and it’s just like bro the fact that you touch so little grass to the point you are arguing about this tells us all we need to know about you.