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#slurs

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Caro S.

Please, do not boost ableist slurs in my timeline, especially not when used for fascist scumbags who support a genocidal apartheid state that also detains and murders Palestinians with dementia.

Dementia is an illness, being a fascist scumbag is a choice.

#ableism#eugenics#Gaza
Aaron

Being autistic, I am challenged when it comes to communicating effectively with non-autistic people. (#DualEmpathyProblem) This gives me first-hand experience when it comes to the irony of a disability affecting the very means at my disposal to defend myself against bias, prejudice, and bigotry. I find it infuriating when people throw my disability under the bus, calling someone who is behaving like a jerk "autistic" as an insult.

Having said that, most of you are probably nodding your heads, autistic or not. So, I challenge you to consider what it's like for someone with an intellectual disability. What's the most commonly used type of insult for people behaving badly? It's not that they're autistic. It's that they're stupid, have a low IQ, are an idiot... You get the idea.

Intelligence (or lack thereof) does not define a person's worth or moral standing. In fact, it has *nothing* to do with it.

#Disability
#DisabilityRights
#Slurs

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Libre :neurodiversity:

Apparently there is a slur against Allistic folks that some Autistic folks have started to use which originated on a popular Autism subreddit. I am not repeating it or mentioning the specific subreddit because I feel very strongly against that. Meme sums up my honest opinion. (No I am not Batman and will never be or want to be that level of authority.)

This is seriously inexcusable to me. I will not fight ableist society with this. We can do better. Not all Allistic folks are terrible to us. Nobody should be subject to hate speech.

If you come to me trying to justify this, expect a lengthy argument or a block.

#ActuallyAutistic#Slurs#HateSpeech
Stefan Bohacek

"The term ["moron"] is attributed to psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard, who used it to describe “feeble-minded” individuals. It is closely tied to the United States’s involvement in eugenics [...]"

Yeah, I know many on here already avoid using ableist language like this, but definitely good to know the history of this particular term.

teenvogue.com/story/the-sinist

via mas.to/@meganL/114108269406867

Teen Vogue · The Sinister History of the Word "Moron," ExplainedBy Marlena Scott
#ableism#slurs#language
ResearchBuzz: Firehose

PsyPost: Google searches for racial slurs are higher in areas where people are worried about disease. “A new study explores how pathogen stress—the prevalence of infectious diseases—may fuel racial bias in the United States, particularly anti-Black prejudice. By analyzing Google search data and measures of implicit and explicit bias, the researchers found that while pathogen stress […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/13/psypost-google-searches-for-racial-slurs-are-higher-in-areas-where-people-are-worried-about-disease/

#disease#google#publichealth
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Nonilex

Among his disgusting #racist & #sexist #slurs was the following:

“Crooked Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Sad. But lying Kamala Harris, honestly, I believe she was born that way. There’s something wrong with Kamala. And I just don’t know what it is, but there is definitely something missing.” #Trump went on to say “only a mentally disabled person” could have pursued the policies of the Biden-Harris admin.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #TrumpIsUnfit
#VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

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