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2:53pm August 4, 2013

➸ Social Wustice: I’m disabled and there really are words I can’t stand, but I just...

allies-person:

socialwustice:

I’m disabled and there really are words I can’t stand, but I just don’t get the importance placed on them.

People rarely called me a retard to my face, but they did amongst themselves. Even when they did call me that, though, the fact they treated me like how they thought retards should be…

As long as “eliminating ableist language" is prioritized over challenging ableist ideas, we’re not addressing the root problem so much as obfuscating the issues and enabling non-disabled people to feel self-righteous.

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  7. clatterbane reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    I wouldn’t include that one (or some other really nasty intentional slurs) in the “euphemism treadmill” pattern, at all....
  8. trixibelle reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  9. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from clatterbane and added:
    Retard was never a kinder gentler anything. Retarded was. Retard was always an insult. Idiot was an insult long long...
  10. cthulhu reblogged this from velderia and added:
    Oh of course not that’d be awful. I’m just saying that hate speech wouldn’t be created if not for people’s hatred in the...
  11. auti-stim reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
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  13. velderia reblogged this from cthulhu and added:
    I agree with just about everything but at the same time, I don’t want the word “retard” to become an acceptable medical...
  14. pinnedbutterfly reblogged this from renam2
  15. renam2 reblogged this from social-wustice and added:
    This is an extremely good point!
  16. andreashettle reblogged this from social-wustice and added:
    Reblogging partly just to say thank you! For raising the term “Euphemism treadmill”! I had observed it at work, which is...
  17. logicalabsurdity reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  18. alliecat-person reblogged this from social-wustice and added:
    As long as “eliminating ableist language” is prioritized over challenging ableist ideas, we’re not addressing the root...