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Originally Posted by Sliver
Idk. I still don't think I get how to address your question? Your statement? Did I workshop this with some people with mental disabilities? No, I did not do that. I won't do that. Believe it or not, I don't actually workshop much of what I say. I mean, I'm sure there are loads of people who would love to donate their time to me so I can run my material by them, but it's just hard to get our schedules to sync up.
I get where you guys are coming from. Is it a nice word? No. Is it meant as an insult when I use it? Yes. Sadly, that's the nature of insults. If you're fat, will I call you fat? No, unless you're aggressively sitting on me and I can't get up due to your weight and then I'll say, 'get your fat ass off me' and I'll mean it.
If I'm in an argument with you will I call you the r-word? Very unlikely unless you are aggressively defending Nazi ideology and spreading hatred and lies about an entire race of people in which case then, yes, I will step in and say your ideas are ######ed in an effort to cast them in the least favourable light from a perspective judging solely on the level of intelligence it would have taken to come up with such ridiculousness.
If you guys rather reach for the thesaurus in that situation, then go for it. Please don't use the words idiot, dumb, moron, imbecile, etc as they have the same basic etymology, though.
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So here’s the problem. You still actively think about the r-word being associated with the developmentally delayed or neurodivergent that you think that these people are too impaired to have reasonable ideas. That’s pretty insulting to those people and shows you think of them as less than.
It’s the same as using you throw like a girl to insult athletic ability or something you think is not cool as Gay. When you use associate a group of people you want to insult with another random group of people you are insulting the random group of people.
As for Dumb Idiot etc I would argue that people no longer associate those words as psychological diagnosis due to the time that has passed but if when you use the term dumb you associate with the condition as it used to be diagnosed then your are in the same place as I think you are with the R-word.
So I think you get your word back in 10 or 20 years unless of course you keep trying to bring it back early before it loses its links to its diagnostic meaning.