It’s not that people are offended for the mentally challenged, it’s the fact that people started using it to refer to people who were not mentally challenged but were just acting a specific way. In this way equating being mentally challenged with being stupid (or whatever else was implied by it).
It’s kind of fucking rude to equate having a certain disability with being stupid.
People used to use the word a lot in this sense. At some point, that became unacceptable so people stopped using the word in this sense. And now, because less people use it in an offensive sense, people think it’s okay to start doing it again without (as the case is proven by OP) realizing what it does in the long term.
It’s kind of fucking rude to equate having a certain disability with being stupid.
To whom? Is it to the mentally challenged person that can’t know any better? Or the stupid person? If we’re being rude to stupid people, I’m kinda okay with that.
If you think that mentally challenged people dont understand when someone is mocking them, or that its okay to mock someone just because they dont understand it, then you are the problem.
It’s not that people are offended for the mentally challenged, it’s the fact that people started using it to refer to people who were not mentally challenged but were just acting a specific way. In this way equating being mentally challenged with being stupid (or whatever else was implied by it).
It’s kind of fucking rude to equate having a certain disability with being stupid.
People used to use the word a lot in this sense. At some point, that became unacceptable so people stopped using the word in this sense. And now, because less people use it in an offensive sense, people think it’s okay to start doing it again without (as the case is proven by OP) realizing what it does in the long term.
The same thing happened with stupid, idiot and dumb. They were clinical words.
To whom? Is it to the mentally challenged person that can’t know any better? Or the stupid person? If we’re being rude to stupid people, I’m kinda okay with that.
If you think that mentally challenged people dont understand when someone is mocking them, or that its okay to mock someone just because they dont understand it, then you are the problem.