The latest news and updates on House Republican efforts to elect a new speaker after ousting Rep. Kevin McCarthy.

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.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    9 months ago

    Plus “Fucktard” isn’t a word.

    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.

      • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        9 months ago

        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.

          • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            9 months ago

            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).

              • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
                22·
                9 months ago

                Look, I’ve been on online communities for thirty years. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen someone say something was good or bad and they turned out to be full of crap. Some things are easy to confirm or disprove, and I usually take the time to do that, but this isn’t one of those things. So yes, I was asking for some kind of confirmation. Does that mean I don’t respect people with disabilities? No. I’m not defending anything, and I’m fact I don’t think I’ve ever personally used that term myself. Breaded on the number of people downvoting in this thread (my only downvote was when you disparaged me personally), a number of other people had the same reaction.