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Would it be better taste to use "drunk" or "high" as insults instead of terms relating to disabilities? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Like, you choose to be drunk or high. No one chooses to be disabled and it's horrible that a whole demographic is treated as a joke.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How about not insulting people?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some people deserve to be insulted.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

And disabled people shouldn't be used as an insult or a joke.

I think "drunk" flows better than the r word anyway. "You think Elon Musk is a transgender ally? Are you drunk?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

To be fair, some people are conservative

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

That's fine, so long as health extortion CEOs aren't considered "people". There's no way in hell I'm going to stop insulting them.