I have a decent amount of patients that label could apply to and I don’t like seeing it used at all. Literally just a few weeks ago I was consoling a patient who was angrily crying because they perceived someone had used it to refer to them. I’m unsure if it was reality based; they do hallucinate and I didn’t personally witness it but its far from impossible and they were absolutely distraught. Using it pejoratively AND censoring it means you knew it was fucked up and did it anyway.
Just say “retard” if you’re gonna say it. Lazily censoring it seems worse, because implications.
Right? I’m tired of the euphemism treadmill telling me what I can and can’t say. Especially if we are coming up with childish phrases like “unalived”
I used to call myself a <transgender slur> until woke cispeople got on my case about it.
Ahh… I guess it’s better than the old internet where the N-Word was your fast pass to being seen as funny and cool?
This has always felt very doublespeak-y to me. Sort of like a control mechanism.
I don’t know anyone “unhoused” who has ever been offended at the word “homeless”. It just seems silly to me.
If I were the conspiratorial type, I’d say it’s about police language
Or go the TikTok route and say “unsmarted” like a goddamn tool.
I have a decent amount of patients that label could apply to and I don’t like seeing it used at all. Literally just a few weeks ago I was consoling a patient who was angrily crying because they perceived someone had used it to refer to them. I’m unsure if it was reality based; they do hallucinate and I didn’t personally witness it but its far from impossible and they were absolutely distraught. Using it pejoratively AND censoring it means you knew it was fucked up and did it anyway.
i assumed it was “rasterization”