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Elon Musk keeps tweeting the 'R-word.' Disability advocates say he needs to stop.
(www.usatoday.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
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As an aside, why does the article avoid actually naming the r-word? Saying the word is not the same thing as using it. It's not like the N word that way. Maybe it's for SEO or something.
No, there are just a lot of people that literally think it's as bad as the n word. A few comments up someone used the word to help people understand what word the article describes. They got a good 40% downvotes.
It's exhausting. Internet Karen's exist on both sides of the political isle.
I think this one is generational (for real, not "these kids don't have work ethic"). I don't know anyone in my age group that cares at all. I've only ever heard people a decade younger than me say "r-word" in real life.
Because people keep using medical terms as insults necessitating the need for new medical terms without the connotation of insults...
So instead of just constantly making new medical terms so people can try a new insult, why not just fucking stop?
How is that difficult to understand?
It's not "fear" it's not "censorship" it's not any of the things you're whining about
It's about stopping the process of turning medical terms into insults.
You have enough insults already, if you feel like you need more how about you make one up I stead of just using actual medical terms?
Why is thnkng so difficult for the people who insist on disparaging that population?
The funny thing about this whole conversation is I genuinely don't know which population it's supposed to be disparaging. (Also I'll note I never saw the message you responded to, given it was mod removed on Lemmy it could be super toxic or it could be "I don't like Linux that much", but I assume the former)
Don't get me wrong I know I could look it up, but it's easier to just not care and go with the flow when I'm around folks in their 20s...and also not care and go with the flow when I'm around folks in their 50s.
They basically said because "moron" was once a scientific term (and people opposed it's use as an insult back in the day too) it was fine to keep doing it indefinitely...
That just leads to an endless cycle where no one is happy, or they could just get creative with their insults.
Like, the whole "debate" is driven by people who aren't smart enough to come up with original insults on their own, so they have to resort to offensive language to "shock" people with their lack of empathy.
There's a certain kind of irony to that, but the people advocating for using recent medical terms as insults will never noticed it