Rep. Steve Scalise, of Louisiana, defeated Rep. Jim Jordan, of Ohio, for the Republican nomination to be House speaker and replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
Rep. Steve Scalise, of Louisiana, defeated Rep. Jim Jordan, of Ohio, for the Republican nomination to be House speaker and replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
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It’s not that I don’t know, it’s that I didn’t consider it at all the same word anymore than I consider “pedophile” and “bibliophile” the same word. I don’t see how “fucktard” disparages developmentally challenged people.
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Honestly, that’s my biggest issue. Wherever it came from, are developmentally challenged people really having an issue with it - consider it “ableist?” Not a rhetorical question, I’m completely ignorant here.
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Wow, that’s a total mischaracterization of what I said. I’m asking if the community who you’re saying is being slurred actually considers it a slur.
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Maybe? But I wasn’t really asking if one person considers it a slur regardless. Generally there’s a rough consensus within a community about whether a term is offensive to them or not, and a well meaning person might not know. “Midget” was a term used broadly before that community generally said we should use “little person” instead. There are loads and loads of similar examples. Black folks have dealt with a series of terms, some of which were not initially used with malice but became a slur over time.
I guess it’s reasonable that this one would be offensive to people, but I honestly didn’t see it. I’m a senior manager and I try too be very sensitive to those issues (not that I’d use “fucktard” at work even if it wasn’t considered ableist).
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