There’s a clear campaign against the mentally ill with the global rise of fascism. Lots of it shows up in anti homeless rhetoric, but you can see it in the MAHA and anti vaccination movements.

There’s no reason to use the word “r-tarded” to describe someone. As someone who’s worked with the intellectually challenged, it’s an insult to them to compare them with people who are willfully ignorant.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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      1 day ago

      removed is a word that is now used exclusively to talk about people who are not mentally ill acting like dumb fucking cunts. Like, its totally removed to see people getting upset at Trump being called a removed… If you hear the word, and you think about actual disabled people. Thats a you thing. Cos I promise you, no one else is.

      No one is looking at this, and thinking that anyone else, but Trump, is a fucking removed.

      Trump didn’t call anyone ”stupid” when he did that. Nor did he even use that word you said he did. He was imitating someone with a disability.

      Now, the poor guy, you’ve got to see this guy: ‘Uhh, I don’t know what I said. Uhh, I don’t remember,’ he’s going like ‘I don’t remember. Maybe that’s what I said’

      The reporter he’s talking about:

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          13·
          1 day ago

          Again, Trump wasn’t even using the word this thread is about in that picture but he was mimicking someone with a disability so I don’t see what point you’re even trying to make.

              • Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.worldEnglish
                12·
                15 hours ago

                I dont think it, I know it. Your problem is your focus is on what Trump did, and I not what I said.

                ie, if I call Trump a removed. If I post that meme to call him a removed. No one, other than you, is thinking about anyone else, but Trump being a fucking removed.

                • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
                  21·
                  13 hours ago

                  You’re still not saying what you know I think you’re saying. Tell me. I wanna know. Because I think you’re misunderstanding my point, and because of that it’s leading you to believe I don’t understand your point. So tell me what you know I think you meant so we can move forward.