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You are being downvoted because we don’t use the r word anymore. Don’t be one of them.
Who is this we bullshit?
Anyone with a sense of decency. So, not you apparently.
If you think people in klan regalia are deserving of decency you are the problem.
You are disparaging people with mental deficiencies by using the r word. I am defending them, not the klansmen.
Can you read?
Clearly you can't because you have no concept of the meaning of words in the context they are used.
There is never an appropriate time to use that word. Grow up.
Who died and made you the morality police?
Your mom? lol don’t be a twat because you are wrong.
I think now is an appropriate time to use the word. This conversation with you is retarded.
Why continue? You are the one that can’t figure out new words and terms. Do you have a learning disability? (For reference, this is what is most commonly accepted terminology these days. For anyone with a physical disability or from a disease process, “person with” followed by the disability or illness is what is used eg: person with Mamothmothman disease.)
Hope this helps, but it sounds like it won’t.
Stupid. Idiot. Sompleton. Half wit. Shit for brains. Bufoon. Moron. Mentally handicapped. Fucked in the head. Dimwit. Dullard. Ibecile. Luddite. Pin head. Slow. Thick. Mental. Thats just off the top of my head and all i would ascribe to you. Now i know why this is so important to you, You self identify as [pick one of the above].
Progressivism is about making progress. Being better/doing better when given the opportunity to do so. You seem to not understand that.
Just. Do. Better. That’s all anyone is asking. You are using the same illogical tactics that the right uses to defend a word that is no longer used as it has been co-opted by people that use it in a harmful way. We move on, choose more inclusive language, and that helps people. Especially when others don’t have to figure out the context of the word to decide if you are being descriptive or just an asshole. Right now, you are being an asshole…and looking at the votes it looks like others agree.
So if we all stop using bad words then we can all come together and sing kumbya while sunshine and rainbows fall out of our asses and nobody says anything offensive and no feelings get hurt?
So you think progress is made by not using a bad word to describe bad people? Gotcha. This is fucking rediculous that you expect me to adjust my language to protect the feelings of people who don't and wont care about my feelings.
It’s not about not labeling bad people a certain way, it’s about not using what has become a slur to describe them at the expense of those who have been labeled that for real medical reasons. And who have been labeled that because they are different.
You sound really fucking stupid right now, and I have explained why. If you can’t bear to change for the better, you may as well be one of the idiots on the right. I’m not convinced you aren’t, actually. As the other guy stated, you have an entire dictionary of words you could use that aren’t at the expense of others, but your small mind can’t even find one that isn’t the bad one. You are the problem here.
So much for being inclusive. It's your small mind that can't let go of the fact that i can use whatever words i want to. But you don't care about liberty you only care about subservience to the hive mind. I have been a social democrat my entire life and have voted as such but i guess i can't do that anymore because i called a racist imbicile a removedon the internet. Fuck off woth your smug stupid moral superior bullshit. This bullshit is why social democratic parties cant pull in the polls because assholes like you seem to think this culture war bullshit about policing language is more important than fucking winning fucking elections.
I refuse to be inclusive to someone who can’t be inclusive themselves. And this has nothing to do with the way anyone votes, so I am not sure how trying to educate you impacts how together we all are in voting away the fascism.
I’m not morally superior, either. I just have morals.
Your last sentence contradics itself.
Yeah, no.
You implied that i have none. Proving my point that you are inflicted with a false sense of moral superiority because you dont use a bad word.
https://www.spreadtheword.global/resource-archive/r-word-effects
You don’t have good morals. Go read this, learn, and acquire them. Or just spout off hate speech and get downvoted/deleted again.
Hate speech lol what?
You are a joke.
Go clown yourself. 🤡
I'm with you, mammothmothman. Nothing wrong with the word retarded. Nothing wrong with being retarded (in the true medical sense of the word). Nothing wrong with calling ignorant uneducated hateful pricks retards as an insult either. People just looove to twist words and complicate language to make themselves feel morally superior. Fuck their hollow virtue signalling and fuck 'decency'
Absolutely nothing wrong with being retarded. Its not a choice, just like being gay isnt a choice or gender disphoria isnt a choice. Racism is a choice and its holding back society therefore it is retarded.
I can see where you're both coming from.
My counterpoint:
The Oxford English dictionary has 171,476 words that are currently in use plus 47,156 obsolete words.
Websters Third New Internationl dictionary has 470,000 words.
Idk what to tell you, when more than one person has told you to stop using a word for x reasons - it really isn't that fucking hard to find a new word. Failing to do so, despite having over 170,000 words to choose from, makes you an asshole. Take it or leave it.
Your argument is absurd. Your facts are probably correct yet your logic is flawed. Im ok with being an asshole in the perspective of idiots, it just means idiots are less likely to want to engage with me, sounds like a win.
Yeah man, you aren't going to get it without insults - you're unfortunately a product of your environment.
The only idiot is you.
There is nothing to get. You want to pretend that you can make the world a happy place for everybody by censorship. You cant. It doesnt work tbat way.
Good god, living in polite society isn't censorship- it's common fucking decency. You're a troglodyte.
Nice name calling. Polite society my ass.