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"crippleds"? Jesus Christ I know the zeitgeist is a cultural backlash against political correctness but goddamn we're getting a little cavalier using 1930s-esq

"crippleds"? Jesus Christ I know the zeitgeist is a cultural backlash against political correctness but goddamn we're getting a little cavalier using 1930s-esque language about non minority groups here aren't we? You couldn't have said serious injuries vs deaths? Or deaths vs maimings?

scarface_74 2y ago
Please don’t try to be an “ally”. I have a very slight disability that causes me to limp a little when I walk (or run and well trained I’m a decent runner) and I am not that easily offended.
- aisenik 2y ago
  Please don't try to speak for everyone who's impacted by the regressive trends in social practices. I have a slight limp and am a member of a scapegoated minority who uses slurs in-community, I'm not easily offended (I'm inherently offensive) and your lil' shoutdown is gross.
  - scarface_74 2y ago
    I’m also in a minority community. Let’s just say I grew up on NWA (the rap group). I also roll my eyes at many of those “allies”. For good reason, as soon as Trump winked, all of the corporations and colleges immediately dropped the programs.
    - aisenik 2y ago
      The rhetorical point of reflecting the grandparent's use of language is to highlight that it's a meaningless argument, in reality. It's just fallacy to appeal to a limp as right to shut down an appeal to modern civility over regressive barbarity in our language. My minority-status is only relevant to further illuminate the emptiness of the argument being made. Most people can claim some degree of structural disadvantage in their lives. The revival of eugenicist language is not a positive trend for any member of a disadvantaged demographic, regardless of how they wield their position in society.
sergiotapia 2y ago
Cut it out
usrusr 2y ago
It's a terrible thing to happen to a person. Language that minimizes negativity has great value when talking about (or with) persons in the post accident state. But here in this context, where we are talking about the event, in the abstract. That same minimization of negativity would only serve those willing to trade other people's safety for personal convenience. 1930s-esque language by the way excelled at glossing over horrors.

scarface_74 2y ago

Please don’t try to be an “ally”. I have a very slight disability that causes me to limp a little when I walk (or run and well trained I’m a decent runner) and I am not that easily offended.

aisenik 2y ago
Please don't try to speak for everyone who's impacted by the regressive trends in social practices. I have a slight limp and am a member of a scapegoated minority who uses slurs in-community, I'm not easily offended (I'm inherently offensive) and your lil' shoutdown is gross.
- scarface_74 2y ago
  I’m also in a minority community. Let’s just say I grew up on NWA (the rap group). I also roll my eyes at many of those “allies”. For good reason, as soon as Trump winked, all of the corporations and colleges immediately dropped the programs.
  - aisenik 2y ago
    The rhetorical point of reflecting the grandparent's use of language is to highlight that it's a meaningless argument, in reality. It's just fallacy to appeal to a limp as right to shut down an appeal to modern civility over regressive barbarity in our language. My minority-status is only relevant to further illuminate the emptiness of the argument being made. Most people can claim some degree of structural disadvantage in their lives. The revival of eugenicist language is not a positive trend for any member of a disadvantaged demographic, regardless of how they wield their position in society.

sergiotapia 2y ago

Cut it out

usrusr 2y ago

It's a terrible thing to happen to a person. Language that minimizes negativity has great value when talking about (or with) persons in the post accident state. But here in this context, where we are talking about the event, in the abstract. That same minimization of negativity would only serve those willing to trade other people's safety for personal convenience. 1930s-esque language by the way excelled at glossing over horrors.