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I don't understand why this word has come back into common usage
I don't understand how people think it's such a big deal anyway. I mean, it's functionally the same thing as calling someone a moron or an idiot or an imbecile, yet I don't know anyone who has any problem with those words. All are obsolete medical terms for intellectually disabled people, used in modern parlance to insult someone's intellect.
Where I'm from people use it frequently, but never about disabled people. They just mean stupid. In that capacity I agree, it's literally the same on every level as idiot, moron, imbecile, feeble-minded, dumb, etc.
If someone uses the word to refer to a mentally handicapped or disabled person, we're gonna fight. If you call attacking Iran retarded, I agree wholeheartedly.
This is the correct way of thinking.
Anyone trying to sell something different is either a psyop dipshit trying to sew division or a self-rigtheous fart smelling wokescold who was duped by the psyop.
My thoughts exactly.
ChatGPT has been trained on Reddit and 4chan posts.
because words lose power over time if you let them, ninnyhammer.
But if they lose the R-slur, what else will upper-middle class white girls get to be upset about?
Don't worry, they'll find something.
The venn diagram of people who "don't understand" incredibly easy to understand concepts, and people who wish that there were no words to describe people who "don't understand" incredibly easy to understand concepts.
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you don't have to use slurs to refer to people actually
There's describing someone's inability to understand easy concepts and there's using a medical condition in a derogatory manner.
Similarly, frowning upon the n-slur does not imply that we have no more words for referring to people of color.
That is not what I suggested. I compared your logical fallacy to a more extreme example in hopes that you notice how short-sighted your argument was.
To remind you, your comment implied "If I can't use , how else will I refer to ?".
There are plenty of other words you can choose from both in place of the r-slur and the n-slur. Arguing that this in any way limits your vocabulary is incredibly narrow-minded.