So Hitler exterminating the intellectually disabled didn’t happen? Weren’t the “invalids” thrown into sanitariums, alms houses and poor farms with horrible conditions? Didn’t Scandinavian countries institute forced sterilization of disabled individuals in the early 20th century? Weren’t children born in antiquity with intellectual disabilities abandoned and/or left exposed to die?

There are plenty of words that can be used to insult someone, if your intention is to bully them. You don’t need to inflict collateral damage to insult one person. The English language is very flexible. Giving up a simple word is an act of respect.

You and everyone else downvoting in this thread are using the same logic as an alt-right dweeb who gets enraged when you “steal” bigoted language from them, or ask them not to misgender someone. Which is dumb, because you’re stealing nothing. It’s saying “Hey, that word is terrible for me hear, it brings back lots of bad memories, so out of respect could please not use it?”

Damn, people want to appear to be against oppression, racism and other things yet can’t even be bothered to modify their behavior in the simplest of ways to respect other living beings. We really are all fucked.

That’s the same as using certain racial slurs. Refraining from using them is a simple act of respect to those marginalized communities.

“Idiot” or “moron” isn’t commonly understood to be tied to a particular group on a modern context. It’s just a generic insult for a stupid person. Trying to compare that to the word of cocern in this post is comparing apples and oranges. It’s now clearly understood as an ableist word and a marginalized group is asking everyone not to use it, as it has very negative connotations for them.

Likewise, “Latinx” was never accepted amongst the Latino community, and only a tiny percentage of university students, most who weren’t even first generation, even cared about it. Using Latinx or Latine actually demonstrates cultural ignorance, as a gendered language doesn’t actually mean words are male, female, non-binary or anything in between. It’s just the rules of the language.

Using slurs against, or in the presence of marginalized people opens up all their old wounds again, wounds inflicted on them by privileged oppressors. These slurs were created with the intention of dehumanizing, insulting and punching down on certain groups, or implying inferiority of those groups when using it as an insult towards others (you’re equating a person to an “lesser” person of a marginalized group).

If you’re interested in studying systems of oppression, this should be an obvious thing to you. Oppression is perpetuated by direct physical and emotional violence, as well as systemic violence.

That means we can’t tolerate any alt-right White nationalists at all. We have to “de-fascist” the country completely. Crush white nationalist organizations, block them from having an internet/social media platform, illgalize racist/confederate imagery, and destroy it. And rewrite the constitution.

Those who espouse hate speech (not just mere bigoted statements, but call for the denial of rights to marginalized groups) must be held accountable and sentenced to something like a fine and re-education.

We also have to purge religiofascism. Even private schools must teach a secular curriculum alongside their religious one. We have to ban at home school except in extreme circumstances. Churches must be taxed, unless they register as non-profit charitable organizations and actually provide non-religious community services.

Don’t know why you’re downvoted like that, casteism/colorism is well-known within the Indian community. The Brahmins and White nationalists are like-minded in that sense, although the White nationalists still see themselves as superior.

They are religiofascist to a degree and demonize Muslims and enforce the “superiority” of Hinduism. There are definitely some mirrors to what has happened in their government versus ours.

I mean, some Indians have a fetish for Hitler, rooted in stupid legends about Aryanism. The pick-me-ism is insane.

Well yeah, it’s racist and you’re grifting all of the money for yourself to line your pockets, while ignoring infrastructure and the necessity of redistribution. This explicitly targets vulnerable groups more than the White, hetero, affluent, and privileged.

This will always be the end result of capitalism. Social degeneration and alienation.

Ok

Eh, I don’t want to. I could, but I don’t want to. I hate spending that much time shouting into an echo chamber to convince a random stranger, when I could be doing something more constructive.

I genuinely hope you’re having a good day.

I don’t want them to waste time with “sorrys.” I want them to capture every last of one these shitcrumbs, humiliate them, strip them of their wealth and throw them in prison. Make an example of what we do with criminal pigs.

That’s the best apology they could give to the rest of the world.

Our government, especially the GOP, invited it to happen by supporting apartheid and genocide. Then the GOP used it as an excuse to start a war and build up a police surveillance state. They cashed in on a massive Halliburton contract. The ball was already set rolling decades ago, but this is where shit really started to go south. The GOP until today are using 9/11 as a justification for their bullshit.

It’s all there. Conservatives have to cheat to win, instead of having a platform that resonates with people. Fascists.

No, don’t get ahead of yourself. Every single person of voting age should be voting, and be prepared to overwhelm any effort they make to cheat the election. Plan to stand up to ICE, the NG, the DOJ and anyone else who tries to obstruct. Then, we can talk about heads rolling.

They’re closeted gays and hence, project their internalized self-hatred onto others as intense homophobia. That’s the only rational explanation for it.

mutual aid

Now this I can get behind.

They nutted within five seconds of seeing Hassan’s rippling muscles and were done.

It’s easy to hate AI data centers. You don’t have to do anything.

Going for the far worse of the two would actually require us all to modify our consumption habits, which no one wants to do.

It’s like how conservatives “care” about fetuses. They get to look righteous without having to sacrifice anything.

Animal agriculture and intensive monocropping leads to far, far worse impacts on the environment.

crickets

Unions got into gun fights with the military to advance worker’s rights. Workers died. You’re not wrong at all.

It’s naive to think the capital class is just going to willingly hand over the reins of power.

Trump’s already doing that to them with his policies, they just crave being in abusive relationships.