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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Dude, would you use that word around someone who has Down Syndrome?
Cause let's be honest here, when people use the word that's the association they are making.
You're insulting someone by referring to them with a derogatory term for another group, with the implication that the insulted person, and the group you are comparing them to are inferior.
It's a slur, plain and simple.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you haven't really thought about it and just say we can all be better, so give it some thought, and move forward and try to be a bit better by not using it anymore.
If you wouldn't call someone a F** or a H***, then you've already figured it out with other words/groups.
Both of those words have the same semantic arguments about "Oh well they are words that can be used in a non slur way", but if you're using it as an insult, you mean it as a slur.
This isn't any different.
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I have thought about it and that's exactly how I'm using it. I'm equating somebody's intelligence with someone who is mentally slower/lower IQ.
Every insult is the same in this way. You call them something that sort of suits how they're behaving in a targeted attack.
Would I call somebody with down syndrome the r-word? Of course not; that would be horribly insensitive and mean.
The r-word is more general and colloquially just used as a disparaging remark against somebody who is acting like an idiot.
Is it your opinion we should just never insult people? What about if a guy is making an argument in support of Nazis and against a race of people, for example. Can you call him names then?
So I've been on CP for 14 years. If I called you the r-word, do you think I should never be allowed back? Are you so sensitive that a little insult hurts you that much that you'd want severe repercussions for me? Or are you just insulted on behalf of people with mental challenges?
Do you joke around with your friends ever and call each other names? My group chat is nonstop insults, basically. It's so normal to me. And it's not like my group is just trash or something. Bankers, teachers, O&G execs, business owners, etc.