Comment on Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy"

• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You are. It’s a slur. It is not an accepted term in the medical community.

  Further, you use it as an insult specifically in that you suggest someone of a certain political preference is intellectually disabled.

  Essentially you are combining someone’s medical situation they did not pick or cause, with someone else’s political interests. That’s fucked up.

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  • obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Damn, I knew the original term was offensive now and had wondered what they replaced it with, intellectually disabled sounds kinda offensive too xD

    Like, it’s not just saying this person has a cognitive disability, but that they’re lower on a class level as well.

    I know that’s not the intent and it’s miles better than the old offensive term, but something like “cognitively disabled” sounds much less offensive than “intellectually disabled”. Wish they went with something like that.

    I think it’s probably because the term intellectual is used in society to describe a class of people (e.g. “Why yes, I’m an intellectual, I read Yeats while you people read the daily rag”) who tend to think of themselves as better or smarter than others…

    So, calling someone “intellectually disabled” sounds like it’s an insult someone from that class would use on someone they wanted to look down on, you know?

    I’m glad they moved away from other misused medical terms, but yeah, pity they settled on a term that sounds like it’s throwing shade ><

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