• moomoomoo309@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    What alternative word would you use in this case, as a pejorative insult to someone’s intelligence?

    Looking at the list you’ve provided, they’re all generic insults not specifically aimed at someone for doing something dumb. If the problem is that the pejorative is aimed at intelligence…ableism will never go away. People will always insult the intelligence of others when they do something dumb.

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      What alternative word would you use in this case, as a pejorative insult to someone’s intelligence

      The point is literally to not, because doing so is ableist.

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        Then ableism will never die. What you are requesting be done is absurd. People say things they do themself are stupid, “I just touched a hot stove without thinking, how stupid of me”, they of course would do the same to others. If that’s the correction you want, you’re going to be in the vast minority and will be fighting a losing war against core fundamentals of human behavior.