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This is a screenshot giving personal information about that sexist rat bastard Nicholas Fuentes. Specifically: Full name: Nicholas J Fuentes Current home address: 1826 Home Avenue Berwyn, IL 60402 Telephone number: (708) 352-7859

Report all you want. This is not getting taken down. Fuck nazis.

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[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (13 children)

That's fair for his case. But I do think that calling someone something generic like "scum" doesn't drive home enough what they did wrong. Making fun of such people likely won't change the person themselves, it's more sending a message to onlookers that the behavior is undesirable and shouldn't be emulated, so being more specific about what it is they did wrong is still important. I suppose we'll probably just come up with new words as the need arises. I'll have to keep up on the scene so I don't fall behind, haha!

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

On further consideration, "shit-for-brains" might just be the phrase you're looking for.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Is "shit for brains" as ableist as "moron" (with added vulgarity)?

(No doubt you’re the kind of person whose heart is always in the right place - love that.)

Signed,

Promise I’m not a nazi

CC: @Signtist@lemm.ee

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

I think the vulgarity might just be what keeps it from being ableist. I'm learning in this thread that most commonly-used words for "unintelligent" have historically been used for actual diagnoses in the medical field for people with actual disabilities, which inexorably ties the word to the concept of being unintelligent by necessity, instead of by choice. So, something vulgar that would never be used by the medical field for a real disability can, at least in theory, be used to describe someone as being willfully ignorant without the baggage of a medically-oriented usage history.

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