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  • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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    3 years ago

    I definitely react to mong. That one has two layers of offense to it, neither of which can really be detached from the word in anyway. (honestly that one's just weird to me. It started out as a racist anthropology theory about Asian people's skull shapes, denouncing them all as ugly, then became a term for people with Down syndrome, and now it's just the new "autistic.") I live in america, so the opinion about Romani is not as pronounced as in europe, although I have been told it's there. I don't use it anymore because I learned where it came from, but I don't think the majority of people who use it are trying to be offensive, and there's enough ground to cover with the average person in terms of anti-racism that I'll only bring it up if I think there's a solid chance they'll stop once they learn. I've had a hard time trying to come up up with words to mean "this idea does not follow from reality and you were not using your senses and reasoning skills when you came up with it" that work as well as the traditional ablest ones do. Stupid and Idiot aren't that bad, but I should work to remove them and anything else from my vocabulary. But I do need to say something if a friend reads a clock backwards or does something else we would call stupid, and saying "have you no senses?" sounds weird and harsher than just "stupid."