Reminder: Ableist slurs are NOT allowed regardless of who they are directed at.
Read up!
https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/impact/why-the-r-word-is-the-r-slur
Yeah, I’ve never liked the outrage surrounding this because people are such hypocrites. People will censor you for using r*****, but then turn right around and call you an idiot or a moron, as if they aren’t the same thing with the same shitty sentiment behind it.
Good men don’t need rules?
*Noooo don’t call an actual real life monster and a fascist a no no word noooo that makes you just as bad as them nooooo! *
You managed to call them a monster and a fascist without resorting to ableist slurs just fine. Get over it.
I can get over minor things and words that don’t matter just fine. Can you? Thick skin and resilience matters a whole of a lot more than nagging other people about certain words.
Thick skin and resilience matters a whole of a lot more than nagging other people about certain words.
[citation needed]
Do you say the same thing when someone uses the n-slur, f-slur, c-slur, b-slur, s-slur, w-slur, or any other slurs?
I know 2 of those I think. I don’t know what c through w is referring to though
I don’t know what c through w is referring to though
Cunt, bitch, slut, Wagnerian. I hate those bastards blasting me with the Nibelungen overture.
If you can really get over minor things then why did you post this? Seems like you’re still nagging people over word choice. Some thicker skin would avoid this problem.
so calling him any slur is okay, or just this one?
i mean, fuck that guy, but that word has a heavy and hateful impact on some people. i just think it’s easier for people to ignore that one than to ignore several others, unfortunately.
The reason good people don’t need rules is because they wouldn’t violate them even if they did. Using that to rationalize being a jerk is misapplying it.
If you’re a “good man,” you wouldn’t be using the r-slur in the first place. The exact cognitive dissonance which allows fascists to be fascists is that they believe themselves to be good people and therefore don’t need rules. But instead of actually being good people, they use this as an excuse to be terrible to others.
Go look at the mod’s profile page. That’s where I got that.
Honestly, I think its a bullshit statement, so I called him out.
And then you ate the onion.Oh that was juicy. Thank you for that one.
One of my daughters has CP and we use the term ironically often… is retard really becoming a slur? We think it’s fine if you’re not special needs around these parts. However if you called a special needs person retarded then its basically fighting words.
This admin is the most thin skinned set of man-babies I’ve ever witnessed in office.
I was recently banned from some vegan comm for using the word ‘moron’. Same justification.
They told me to fix my comment.
I said no.
N-word offensiveness comes from the historical marginalization of a group of people.
Intellect is relative, which is very different. I feel that is the reason why, for me, R is still uncomfortable, but not as offensive? I don’t use the word, but I’ve basically never encountered a deliberate marginalization of the intellectually disabled. The marginalization by race, however…
Mods, this isn’t the hill to die on and you know it.
Ban all who dare use slurs against fascists pedophiles!
Fascists sealioning and normalizing genocide? Okie dokie.
Man, I agree with you, but these are the rules:
“All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed.”
How you execute a consistent set of policies when the rules say you don’t have to be consistent is beyond me.
LOL! I think it’s one of those “read the room first” situations.
I’ve always said Kash Patel deserves 100% of the shit the GOP spews thrown right back in his “special needs” face… but that IS a slur against the actual people that are disabled, since Patel isn’t really needing of any special treatment or help… beyond the karmic swift one in the pants he so deserves.
Which should be given with extreme wit, vigor and prejudice.
Consider the actual definition of the word not just how it makes you feel…it applies to both Patel personally and his role in the current administration, he is actively retarding our entire law enforcement system as well as the investigation against the single largest, most vile, and most influential criminal organization to ever exist. It can be a slur but it’s not inherently a slur.
We’ve made a bit of progress. In the past, such a post would be immediately banned, simply for having the word in the title. As if the word itself is magical apart from context and intent.
“Googly-eyed Kremlin bitch” still court-approved
That dude has definitely drunk Bailey’s from a shoe.
Don’t you do ol’ greg like that
“Free speech absolutists” except when their feelings get hurt…
The mods… Literally half the comments here got censored and banned
Because they were using the r-slur? That only makes sense. It’s against the community rules, is it not? The mods here never claimed to be free speech absolutists.
If you think the problem here is that people aren’t allowed to use the r-slur, you completely missed the point of the article.
The hypocrisy is the main issue. This admin cries about how people can’t say the r-slur anymore, and then they get butthurt and threaten abuses of power when it’s used against them.
Weaponizing the FBI against some jerks on the internet is a huge part of the problem too. Enforcing conduct and language standards falls on content moderation teams, not federal law enforcement. That doesn’t mean the whole internet should be the wild west. Unless you’re okay with nazis spouting hate? Because that’s what you’ll get with free speech absolutism.
So honestly I really don’t get you’re point. Should the mods not remove comments that use slurs, and ban repeat offenders?
Literally the same as the post, r slur used and no more free speech.
I suggest using the power of your free speech to walk up in person too anyone of color and using any of those words to their face and see how your “free speech” goes.
Furthermore, a little reasearch on what “free speech” means and doesn’t mean might be in order.
What I find interesting is that so many people seem to want to stand up on the side of bigotry and demand their “right” to be a bigot and use bigoted language. I’m not sure that’s really a great look.
and see how your “free speech” goes
So you are saying that black and brown people are more prone to violence? Sounds racist.
I don’t even know where to begin to try and guess where you think you get that from.
Wrong use of ellipses.
Wrong use of pedantry…
Revelations in November 2025 that Mr Patel, 46, was using taxpayer-funded jets to watch performances by his girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, a 27-year-old country music singer, also prompted widespread criticism.
Fails the half-his-age-plus-seven rule.
With these chuds, I’m just happy that she’s not a child.
I mean maybe not physically but mentally…
Googly-eyed chud
Chud is a no no word meant to disparage underground canibals you can’t use that word!
Underground cannibals is a slur! We call them ‘people who eat people’ now.
