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lemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read" (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 5 months ago by spujb@lemmy.cafe to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/impact/why-the-r-word-is-the-r-slur

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[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 47 points 5 months ago

Tell that to anyone in the aviation industry and you'll get a chuckle and a couple of "bless your heart"s.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 56 points 5 months ago

entirely different word and we both know it

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Try telling that to a text filter or a moderator on a power trip. They won't give a rat's ass about "to retard" meaning "to reduce or hold back." Even the linked article fails to make the semantic distinction when it calls for the elimination of the word.

If this comment disappears, it will have proven my point.

[-] doona@aussie.zone 20 points 5 months ago

The fact that this lame strawman argument has received so many upvotes is baffling. Who gives a fuck what the random moderator that you invented does?