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submitted 10 hours ago by spujb@lemmy.cafe to c/196

sorry for any misunderstanding last time. this one is better because it portrays the actor/object relationship between ableists and the language they steal directly rather than implicitly. it’s hard to get a gauge on how everyone reads the memetic text. hoping this works better with the local audience. :)

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[-] kittenzrulz123 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Idk im Autistic and I use "regarded", neurotypicals can fuck off if they feel offended

[-] transhetwarrior 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 59 minutes ago)

The r-slur is targeted at intellectually disabled people. It's not something for you to reclaim. When people call non-intellectually disabled autistic people that, the insult is that they're comparing them to intellectually disabed people.

[-] Walk_blesseD 2 points 1 hour ago

Why "regarded"? I don't get it tbh. To me it just says that you want to call someone "retarded" but you're just too much of a coward to commit. Like, it communicates the exact same contempt for someone's cognitive abilities but also an aversion to using a proper No-No Word™ because you don't wanna transgress some sorta social taboo against them while doing so. Cuck behaviour, ngl chief.

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