You don't have to be mentally ill to be these things. Considering the type of people that rule our world
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) it seems that the most well adjusted people in our society are not only more than capable of being this, it seems like a requirement.
So I am no longer comfortable using the word psychopath (or any other "dark triad" nonsense) to describe these types of people. These people aren't struggling to function with a mental illness, they're of the exact mindset that thrives in our backwards society.
However I'm struggling to think of a suitable replacement word that carries with it the same "This is serial killer coded shit" vibe that calling someone a psychopath carries (and associating such a thing with psychopaths is ableist so I don't want to use the word in that way anymore)
Calling them ghouls, fascists or nazis doesn't carry the same weight. What kind of word bests describes the casual, dangerous heartlessness of people without throwing the mentally ill under the bus?
I feel like any derogatory term for someone who should be shunned and made to feel lesser that doesnt have racist or exist connotations has been used as an ableist insult cause that's what people has left. So while some may feel this way, I do try to avoid terms where the literal meaning is ableist. I call these people freaks very often, etymologically a freak is an overly capricious person, which later led to it being used to describe a capriciously obsessive person and then broadened into a term for a hateful circus act. The adjective Disgusting gets passed around alot in my speech, I feel it fits the bill.nicely. I use monsters and ghouls a lot cause the bill fits. They arent hot enough to be demons. I don't think Butcher gets thrown around enough. I generally make it up kn the spot to suite whichever loathsome fuck i have the the displeasure of being aware of. Loathsome fuck was on the spot for example. When seeing how much impact a word has, try it out loud. Be poetic. Or anti poetic, 'loathsome fuck' is a decent example. It sounds like a star wars alien name, and those all sound like slurs. Do a 5 dollar word followed by a really childish insult and you've got the best combo generally. Just don't go 2010s reddit and call people Incandescent Dunderheads. Informative adjective followed by a swear word. Ricky from trailer park boys herd it right. Just call someone what they are doing followed by Dick. Security guy bothering you? Security dick, sometimes describing the kind of dick someone is tskes a paragraph but the summary can hurt.
Geek seems to get under people's skin in a weird way. Same with weenie