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>insufficient awareness of different definitions of words Lot of that going around. If you look up "retard" in Merriam-Webster, it says "informal + offensive

by vba616 4y ago

>insufficient awareness of different definitions of words Lot of that going around. If you look up "retard" in Merriam-Webster, it says "informal + offensive : a foolish or stupid person" If you look up "schizo" in Merriam-Webster, it says "a schizophrenic individual". If you look up "psycho" in Merriam-Webster, it says "a deranged or psychopathic person —not used technically" Think about this and you will become enlightened. (I should make it clear that I agree with you if you think the idea of policing "schizo" and "psycho" like people police other terms is impossible, absurd. They can't be destigmatized or merged into "neurodiversity". All I really wanted or expected to do was shock some awareness.)

svnt 4y ago
I think we mostly agree. You didn’t shock any awareness, though — the idea that you could in this case is based in your perception that you knew more than me (or that this was a competition in who could be more ableism-aware) which is likely based on your own lived experience where it is probabilistically most likely to be true. We are in the long tail here though where it is not only possible but fairly likely that the person you’re talking to is at least as much of an outlier as you are, and where someone else may have already come out the other side of an extended and overwrought diversity awareness education of trauma-informed everything and be thoroughly done with it. Your offense at the term and/or your friend’s reaction was based on your own outdated associated definition and/or your assumption of what you understood my definition to be, my understanding, and/or my awareness. People often think they are “smarter” because others make concise comments and the big brains, instead of assuming competence, assume that every corner of the discussion that wasn’t fleshed and rounded out in the original comment is an opportunity for a brilliant unique thought, discovery, or observation of theirs that is unknown to the commenter. That’s often not the case.
- vba616 4y ago
  >this was a competition in who could be more ableism-aware Ah, that's just it - I assumed you were "ableism-aware". I believe in the spirit of the XKCD cartoon "Ten Thousand" (https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/) and do not think it's ever appropriate to shame people for not knowing what "everybody" knows. Much less assume strangers are ignorant so that I can inform them. "Ableism-awareness" is common. "Schizo-awareness" is nonexistent, as is, I think, proven by the mainstream dictionary you linked to.

by vba616 4y ago

svnt 4y ago

I think we mostly agree. You didn’t shock any awareness, though — the idea that you could in this case is based in your perception that you knew more than me (or that this was a competition in who could be more ableism-aware) which is likely based on your own lived experience where it is probabilistically most likely to be true. We are in the long tail here though where it is not only possible but fairly likely that the person you’re talking to is at least as much of an outlier as you are, and where someone else may have already come out the other side of an extended and overwrought diversity awareness education of trauma-informed everything and be thoroughly done with it. Your offense at the term and/or your friend’s reaction was based on your own outdated associated definition and/or your assumption of what you understood my definition to be, my understanding, and/or my awareness. People often think they are “smarter” because others make concise comments and the big brains, instead of assuming competence, assume that every corner of the discussion that wasn’t fleshed and rounded out in the original comment is an opportunity for a brilliant unique thought, discovery, or observation of theirs that is unknown to the commenter. That’s often not the case.

vba616 4y ago
>this was a competition in who could be more ableism-aware Ah, that's just it - I assumed you were "ableism-aware". I believe in the spirit of the XKCD cartoon "Ten Thousand" (https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/) and do not think it's ever appropriate to shame people for not knowing what "everybody" knows. Much less assume strangers are ignorant so that I can inform them. "Ableism-awareness" is common. "Schizo-awareness" is nonexistent, as is, I think, proven by the mainstream dictionary you linked to.