- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
A draft law sparks debate with locals calling it excessive and questioning how it would be enforced.
A draft law sparks debate with locals calling it excessive and questioning how it would be enforced.
They’ve gone retarded…again.
If you could use another word, like “regressive”, that would be a lot better.
Question, do we in the Neurodivergent community get to reclaim words like “retard” the same way other communities do with their derogatory slurs? Or are we once again “different” and shouldn’t be allowed to reclaim what is ours?
As an autistic person, I’ll say that I personally don’t have a problem with the word retard and jokingly call my self retarded.
And that’s fine, I don’t mind people using the term about themselves really, but as someone with a very visible disability, I strongly oppose the use of it as a pejorative slur, because it’s most regularly used by people who want me to be castrated (or worse) so that I don’t reproduce and pass my “weak genes” to future generations. Perspective and all that.
Self-identification is valid, feel free. But using a term as an insult against others is not.
Well regarded.
Full Reeguard
Redarted
Retrograde
Center for Mental Retrograde sounds pretty awesome, ngl