I think a fair number of (able-bodied) people don’t understand that cripple is a slur. It’s a slur. It’s offensive. Physically disabled people can reclaim it *if they want to*, but they don’t have to. They can be offended by it if they want to as well. Both are valid.
Also, you can reclaim it FOR YOURSELF! You don’t just get to call other people cripples because you decided to reclaim it. That’s personal. Saying “oh, I can say that because I’m physically disabled” only applies if you’re referring to YOURSELF that way. You do not get to tell other people in your community what they should and shouldn’t be comfortable with.
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🔥homestuck
you shouldn't read the fan version with the slurs removed. idk if that's unpopular in general but it's unpopular among the specific social circles i'm in. i just think doing so ends up just lying to you about what homestuck is, which is a very very context-bound snapshot of a specific sort of internet culture where people said retard and faggot a lot. like it just seems like an extension of the "making up a better version of homestuck that exists in your head" project that the mainstream homestuck fandom has been engaged with for like a decade now which i also think is a silly way to engage with art
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based on when i said "I dont really like dumbasses. i think being smart is one the things I desire most in people" and then was forced to realize almost everyone im super close to has a room temperature iq
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The r slur is a nasty, nasty word and I do not understand how so many otherwise progressive people hurl it around like confetti. A lot of yall have zero solidarity with those who are intellectually disabled. You are not ""reclaiming"" it when you use it to insult someone. Be real, you just wanna use it cuz it gives you a little surge of catharsis whenever you are Big Mad. Fuck you.
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can you guys like pay attention to the op of popular meme posts. i know sometimes meme aggregator accounts are subtle but this has a slur in the url
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I never really understood whether posts like
[Description of someone that is not technically very insulting]
[Please just call me a slur instead]
were joking or not until I was talking with my mother about support needs around autism.
Mom: Well you’re more on the high-functioning end of the spectrum, like Elon Musk!
Mother dearest it would have been kinder to slap me across the face and call me a retard.
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Image description: A halftone black and white design depicting a snarling white dog with text next to it in all caps reading “Enough awareness enough acceptance I’m angry and I want to kill the CEO of Autism Speaks”.
Another halftone black and white design depicting a chuerub statue with black eyes and texts next to it that reads “ One day I’ll stim so hard I break the light barrier become an angel of raw fire and every colour in the multiverse and then I’ll use my godly powers to pull the limbs off everyone who called me a retard like a hurt child torturing flies and then you’ll be sorry then you’ll be sorry “ the phrase “you’ll be sorry” repeats until the border of the design.
Another halftone black and white design depicting a knife with text around it in all caps reading “When will we take revenge for disbled victims of infanticide?” End description.
It’s the last day of April and the last day of Autism “Awareness” month, but (un)fortunately for me every other month of the year is Autism Rage-At-Ableist-Oppression month! You can get these as stickers on my Redbubble
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