Alright folks I don't want this to be a struggle session so let's operate from "'stupid' and 'dumb' are ableist terms, now what?" I would like people to offer up alternative insults/negative remarks.
Alright folks I don't want this to be a struggle session so let's operate from "'stupid' and 'dumb' are ableist terms, now what?" I would like people to offer up alternative insults/negative remarks.
While I said I don't want it to be a struggle session, cool headed good faith discussion is also appreciated. This just came up with some comrades of mine and I couldn't find the last post about it so if anyone has the link that would be great too.
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"Stupid" is not ableist in etymology. "Stupid" was never a medical terminology like ableist terms, the r-slur as example was a medical terminology. "Stupid" comes from latin, "stupidus", which means to be struck senseless with astonishment. "Stupid" is the base word of "stupefied", which means a temporary state of mental numbness from shock.
To say that "stupid" is ableist is overcorrective. "Stupid" does not describe a disability. Anyone can be "stupid". "Stupid" describes a person who is in a state of confusion from being surprised.
Also I get everybody being like "just call them a shit head instead" but their willful ignorance and insistence on not making basic connections is a specific and pretty widespread trait.
Lots of people are shitheads, it's a very specific kind of shithead who thinks "it was cold last week so global warming doesn't exist" is a great point and pointing out that argument is fucking stupid is a lot more effective then calling the person who made it a shit gibbon twat waffle like some kind of mid 2010s memelord.