• yesman@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Lot’s of people avoid using the word retard. But that’s hard on some people because the loss of that word can decimate their whole vocabulary.

    I support your freedom of expression; language is hard, and some people need verbal prognostics to make their point. It’s rude to pick on people just because of a diminished capacity.

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      2 hours ago

      My vocab is diminished because I don’t use slurs? That sounds like an incredible trade off. I think I will keep it up.

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      5 hours ago

      By calling out the decline of Trumps cognitive abilities, I offended subset of people who should in my view never ever be called a “retard”?

      I do apologise to anyone who still wants to identify as one.