There’s a clear campaign against the mentally ill with the global rise of fascism. Lots of it shows up in anti homeless rhetoric, but you can see it in the MAHA and anti vaccination movements.
There’s no reason to use the word “r-tarded” to describe someone. As someone who’s worked with the intellectually challenged, it’s an insult to them to compare them with people who are willfully ignorant.
slurs are useful.
they are an escalation step that are words instead of physical violence.
making slurs illegals removes that step and leads the escalation straight to violence.
That is an unpopular opinion.
What the fuck kind of logic is this? We can’t magically make insulting language go away. If someone wants to use a slur, they will. People also don’t think “damn, if I didn’t have a word to insult this person that was insulting enough I’d punch them!” If people want to be violent they’re going to be violent.
At no point has the suggestion been that saying slurs should be illegal. It’s that if you say slurs, you are a shitty person.
Also - this is probably the most sociopathic and scary take on this thread. People say slurs rather than do violence, so we shouldn’t be concerned with people saying slurs? My understanding is that slurs are more often then not preludes to violence.
Not trying to be a troll. I just genuinely don’t understand why sociopathic is acceptable as an adjective and retarded is not. Can you explain the difference?
“Sociopath” is not a diagnosis for a mental illness or disability. It is a word describing behavior hostile to others. There is no systemic discrimination against people labeled as “sociopaths.”
Using terms like sociopath to describe someone is worse than a slur. It pseudo-intellectual cowardice to use that rather than saying that you think someone is crazy or more directly retarded.
I think that if you remove pathways that are non-violent, like name-calling, then that makes a more direct path to violence. And NAZIs have shown that violence is inevitable in history.
And hate speech is a crime in many places.
“Oh noo if I can’t say slurs then I have to just attack the ni-”
You gotta get past this phase bro
And you gotta see the Black Mirror episode, “Arkangel”, bro. Cause it’s obvious you haven’t.
“The TV show told me I was right bro”
I’ve seen all of black mirror. -_-
You gotta grow up