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[–] 71 points 5 months ago (6 children)

So calling someone disagreeable a dick, or a bellend, or a prick, or a tosser, or a knobhead, or a wanker, is fine. But calling them a cunt is beyond the pale?

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    In a slightly similar vein. People who conflate all uses of the word retard as ableism generally have nothing against the words stupid, imbeciel, moron, or insulting peoples intelligence in general.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    We just have to give up. Being smart is better than not being smart, and it doesn't matter if we invent new words a dozen more times, they'll just become insults.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I will die on this hill:

    If someone calls a nazi a retard to piss the nazi off... that's not ablism and getting offended by it is narcissism.

    edit: Theres actually a term! Communal Narcissism.

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