Why do you have to put down people with disabilities in order to describe republican failures? What does putting down young kids with Down syndrome accomplish by making their lived experience a punch line to put down republicans? Why not just call them failure, dipshits, morons, literally any other word that isn’t used to put down vulnerable populations.
You are completely missing my point. No one uses that word in a diagnostic, medical, or even discriminatory sense. I’m saying let’s give that word new meaning and put it to actual good use. Don’t just pretend to have a brain, actually use it. South Park has a whole episode regarding this concept
Using that word as an insult because you think it’s funny is literally a discriminatory use of the word. You are taking a demeaning word used to put down disabled individuals, and you are placing it on a group you are frustrated with in order to insult them. I used to work as a paralegal for a firm that specialized in the mistreatment of disabled children in educational settings, and let me tell you, that word is an everyday experience for people with disabilities. You being ignorant of the fact that the r word is used all the time in a discriminatory fashion, for decades and decades, really shows how unaware/sheltered you are.
Furthermore, the transitional use and re ownership of slurs is usually something that is accomplished by in-groups taking the word and making it appropriate for other in-group members to use it. When black Americans reclaimed the n-word, it wasn’t so they could just use it as an insult for a seperate group of people. They reclaimed it so that a word that demeans people of color can be taken away from people who abuse it.
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u/NoGas9518 1d ago
Why do you have to put down people with disabilities in order to describe republican failures? What does putting down young kids with Down syndrome accomplish by making their lived experience a punch line to put down republicans? Why not just call them failure, dipshits, morons, literally any other word that isn’t used to put down vulnerable populations.
God Reddit is full of sheltered ass holes