Not sure what your context and life story is. From my perspective it seemed like an aggressive and vitriolic choice where "stupid" would have sufficed. As an insult it seems to have a lot more cultural weight behind it which is why I called it a slur. Words are all just sounds, it's the societal landscape which decides what they actually mean. My friends were telling me they've been hearing that word used a lot more frequently as an insult than they remembered from a couple of years ago, so I was particularly primed to make a comment on it.

I am not in favour of censorship of people's words at the state level. Language is a community project which should be dealt with at a community level. Which is why I said something. I think we should try to be a bit kind in how we speak.

Now that I think about it I don't think calling people stupid is helpful either. I feel like a lot of "stupidity", especially as relates to politics, is about low quality schooling and a social media landscape which is designed to implant and further certain beliefs.

Yeah anyway, I guess, mostly I'm tired of watching the world crumble around me and would like to start building things so this mostly ended up as a pile of my random thoughts. I hope you're having a less tiring day today 😊