Catch the ableism here: https://lemm.ee/comment/2798300

  • HarryLime [any]
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    1 year ago

    "Narcissist" is not a goddamn slur fuck off

    • DroneRights [it/its]
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      1 year ago

      Given the immense number of people who use it as a pejorative to refer to mentally disabled people, it is. It's the same as the R word.

      • BountifulEggnog [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Given the immense number of people who use it as a pejorative to refer to mentally disabled people

        I have literally never heard or seen it used that way.

        Edit: ohh, new account. Good troll ig.

        • DroneRights [it/its]
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          1 year ago

          https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/do-narcissists-cry

          Here's an article discussing ableist myths about NPD

          • BountifulEggnog [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            This article doesn't mention mental disabilities, or online trolling. Why did you link it?

          • DroneRights [it/its]
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            1 year ago

            Here's a wikipedia article about NPD that calls it a disability and frequently refers to pwNPD as narcissists or narcissistic

      • HarryLime [any]
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        1 year ago

        refer to mentally disabled people,

        Since when is narcissistic or narcissist used to refer to mentally disabled people?

        • DroneRights [it/its]
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          1 year ago

          Well, when it's used to refer to people with narcissistic personality disorder, which happens to be most of the time

          • HarryLime [any]
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            1 year ago

            Ludicrous. Having narcissistic personality disorder is not a mental disability by any reasonable definition of the term. Furthermore, one can have narcissistic personality traits without having the disorder in full. If I'm calling someone a narcissist or narcissistic, I'm not presuming to actually diagnose them with NPD.

          • Wheaties [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            isn't narcissism a pattern of behavior and belief? Doesn't really seem like it belongs in the same category as mental disabilities.

  • forcequit [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    there's an argument to be had about using pathologising language, but this is just incendiary bullshit

    • Othello
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      17 days ago

      deleted by creator

  • DroneRights [it/its]
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    1 year ago

    50% of people I ask not to use ableist slurs respond that they didn't know there was a connection between the pejorative and the disability. And that would be all well and good, if it weren't for the fact that the other 50% proceed to say that they were talking about disabled people and they think people with NPD deserve hatred. The "I'm speaking greek" excuse, though, doesn't hold any water if you say it in english.