Alright folks I don't want this to be a struggle session so let's operate from "'stupid' and 'dumb' are ableist terms, now what?" I would like people to offer up alternative insults/negative remarks.
While I said I don't want it to be a struggle session, cool headed good faith discussion is also appreciated. This just came up with some comrades of mine and I couldn't find the last post about it so if anyone has the link that would be great too.
Pretty sure we've already done this, and the outcome was that we're still using both those words, which I'm personally fine with tbh. You have to draw a line somewhere.
That said, if you're not comfortable with using them "clown/clownish" is a good substitute as no one was ever born a clown.
Yes we did and this is not about drawing a line, this is about comrades that may want to just voluntarily curb the usage of those terms and also for coming up with more creative insults and such.
Listen here you little shit, I am a decorated veteran of the posting wars, I have thousands of confirmed dunks. I will ban you from 1000 miles away and not lose sleep over it.
That said, if you're not comfortable with using them "clown/clownish" is a good substitute as no one was ever born a clown.
"Clown" always throws up a red flag because I've seen so many fascists using it. I don't know why but I assume it came from 4chan using it euphemistically as a slur and other fascists not in the loop picking up the habit of using it as a generic word for something bad.