
People are in general overly sensitive to words online. One day it was suddenly faux pas to say “retarded”. Sorry but why is anybody policing this? If I call someone retarded, it was meant to be an insult.
I miss the Internet of decades prior, where it took at least a room temperature IQ to access it.













Ok, but you’ve done nothing to refute my statement or provide any additional information that’s remotely useful. Just slinging ineffective insults that fall pretty flat if I’m honest.
In terms of ableism, I guess that’s true to a degree. I definitely consider people of significantly lower intellect to be below me, but that’s not to say I don’t still treat them kindly and with respect until they’ve proven they don’t deserve it.
The same people who tell me retarded is a bad word now will still casually drop moron or idiot and they’re synonyms. People decided retarded was a bad word because it’s the one we were using, but now those same people use a synonym and tell me a word is off limits. All they’ve done is give the word even more weight.