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• maniclucky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well with such a compelling, well reasoned argument, I’ll have to concede. Well done.

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I read your argument, it was stupid. I thought it was important to point out.

    Why was it stupid? First of all it is only a slur to someone who is mentally delayed. It wasn’t being used in that context and it is clearly not punching down. It is an argument an idiot would make. Cheers!

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    • maniclucky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s a poorly reasoned take. Slurs are only slurs if someone’s around to hear it? That’s definitely not how that works. Additionally, groups that are not necessarily mentally delayed (waves in autistic) get painted with that brush too. So even by your poor reasoning, it was a slur because I was there to see it.

      It was also definitely punching down. It was the classic usage “Group X is like group Y and they’re bad because of the features they share”, specifically difficulty understanding new information in this context. Explain how it wasn’t that? How it didn’t draw an equality between them based upon the expressed undesirable feature of learning difficulties, thus implying that the intellectually disabled are less because of it?

      So, yeah. You’re taunting me. Really badly.

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      • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        So calling someone a removed is always a slur? Ignoring context is stupid because it is willfully ignorance. Clearly context matters.

        Furthermore who defines it as as a slur. I know someone who is mentally developed that throws around the retard word all the time. Are you offended for them?

        Also retardation has fallen out of favor for medical diagnosis. It has not fallen out of favor for a general insult, no matter how badly you want it to. Once again, ignoring context.

        Lastly punching down refers to social ridicule from a high standing group to a low standing group. This did not happen. You are clearly wrong to say it did.

        So yeah you are acting stupid and you continue to double down on the stupidity like it is a badge of honor.

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