Amethyst
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The pandemic tedium is causing me to ponder stuff that never occurred to me in the past. Currently, I am hung up on a question that is difficult to phrase without sounding like I am trying to be funny. I am not. Here goes:
If it's not OK today (and never was) to make fun of people for being blind, Deaf, physically handicapped in some way, or mentally challenged such as having Down syndrome or autism,
Why is it still OK (apparently, since it is extremely common) to call people "stupid" or "moron"? To say things like, "You can't fix stupid"? "I'm surrounded by idiots," etc. Is this not mocking an intellectual disability?
Or is it just a figure of speech - that is, we think it really is possible to "fix stupid," and are blaming people for not trying? Ignorance can be fixed, but you rarely see someone using the word "ignorance." Nope, they say "stupid, dumb, moron, idiot" etc.
Just wondering.
If it's not OK today (and never was) to make fun of people for being blind, Deaf, physically handicapped in some way, or mentally challenged such as having Down syndrome or autism,
Why is it still OK (apparently, since it is extremely common) to call people "stupid" or "moron"? To say things like, "You can't fix stupid"? "I'm surrounded by idiots," etc. Is this not mocking an intellectual disability?
Or is it just a figure of speech - that is, we think it really is possible to "fix stupid," and are blaming people for not trying? Ignorance can be fixed, but you rarely see someone using the word "ignorance." Nope, they say "stupid, dumb, moron, idiot" etc.
Just wondering.