Stuff like "stupid, idiot, moron, dumb," you know the ones. If you’re insulting someone for their shitty garbage beliefs and all you can manage to come up with is ways to insult their intelligence, appearance, or other aspect about them that has nothing to do with their cruelty and shittyness, you should maybe reevaluate.

Just saw a thread on here where a user was stubbornly refusing to adjust their language when another user politely pointed out that it was harmful to our comrades as well, and the person refusing was massively upvoted and the comrade trying to explain why it was harmful was downvoted. Thought we were better than that

I'm not calling anyone out, just wanted to make a post explaining my feelings on it and that when stuff like that happens (not the intelligence based insults, I know its hard to switch, but getting insulted for asking people to avoid them) it hurts and makes me feel less welcome here </3

Using words like “You’re being ignorant” or “That’s a cruel belief” is actually more effective than just going “lmao idiot”.

If those are the words you actually mean to convey I'd say use them instead :)

Edit: if the reception this post got isn't a good proof that this is something this community needs to grapple with, I don't know what is.

  • qublic69 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Slurs are bad because the reproduce systems of oppression against marginalized groups of people,

    That's a much better definition, and a distinction worth making; although different from what you had mentioned previously.
    And it just doesn't exclude words like 'moron', it just doesn't. It was specifically used in relation to eugenics; how could it get more "reproducing systems of oppression" than that?

    which is when you then jumped in with your logically fallacious “that argument is bad because other people say it about things that are slurs!”

    That wasn't me (edit: or maybe it was, is ambiguous which comment you refer to); and I don't entirely agree about that, but ugh... I'm tired of this whole thread so...
    You two play nice or something, cause I'm out.