• Delphia@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    “Anything I dont like is woke.” Is now just “Anything I dont like is DEI.”

    Its a big part of why I disagree with the backlash against saying retarded. People who want to be hateful just move the goalposts and make the acceptable term a slur. Furhermore anyone who calls a mentally disabled person names is a “CUNT” not “a person of dubious personal character”

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      6 hours ago

      …so it should be fine to say slurs because otherwise new words become slurs but also using slurs makes you a bad person so you shouldn’t do it?

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        5 hours ago

        Not fine but the message is more important than the words.

        Calling someone who says hateful shit with the right words a retard is not worse than the hateful bastard. Idiot and Moron both have old roots in discriptions of people who were probably mentally handicapped.