"Why yes, my overpriced fake leather nostolgiabait shoes that have nothing in it, dont come in wide, and gives people pla tar fasciitis is muxh better than the other overpriced fake leather hipsterbait shoe!!!!"
And then kids will literally screech in the damn store if they dont get their shitty nike shoe, becayse its about the NAME of the BRAND!!!
There’s a history of bigotry behind every word in the English language. It’s a language made by and for bigots. A language forged in the fire of colonial world domination and liberal rationalism that justified it. I’m sorry but you will never escape using words that have a history of bigotry behind them if you speak English and live in the west. If you keep cutting out words you will just be left stunted and unable to communicate without sounding like a total dork and still be speaking the language of colonizers anyway, just speaking oddly.
To be clear, this isn’t a carte blanche to just drop whatever slurs you want. You obviously still should be mindful to not be insulting and offensive and gross. However, where are the massive populations of people who actually, really think that “stupid” is akin to the n-word or something and a slur? Nobody actually thinks that.
The issue isn’t the hisotry of the word so much as the current implications.
I agree with this, but you don't.
I don’t feel bad at the prospect on losing insults with a history of bigotry behind them
So which is it? Does historical etymology matter or does current use and meaning? Again, the vast majority of people do not find "Stupid" to be a bigoted phrase associated bigotry. The current, descriptivist definition in how it's actually used is not bigoted so you criticized it on it's history. Then you say the history doesn't matter but how it's used?
Really, I wouldn't have dreamed I would see someone getting dogpiled for this take, which would have been uncontroversial here 2 months ago. Federation has been a disaster for hexbear culture
It's not ableist to say stupid or insult people. Ban me if you want, to be consistent on this you have to ban half this website that has that word or an insult of intelligence in their comment history because most everyone says it constantly. I'm correct.
For the purpose of talking past you:
There's thoughtlessly using a minor ableist term, and then there's doubling down and defending it's use when asked not to.
Having an ableist mindset is not only harmful to your comrades but also harmful to our movement itself.
An ableist mindset:
Takes the blame off of the real problem, being a chud's reactionary immature, uninformed mindset, and clouds your ability to react to it in the most useful way.
Is not solidarity.
Encourages calipers shit.
You see chuds saying shit like:
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Play stupid games win stupid prizes
When people get conned, which assuming they are in fact less abled, implies that that makes it okay to steal from them, as if they don't have an equal need to eat and have shelter. That's what this is playing in to.
You can insult people without being reactionary. If you find that difficult it is your own skill issue not "tone policing"