JohnBrownNote

that race track, the combat zone, and the entire gunners faction make it feel so empty.

it's been fairly well stamped out i think. Don't hear it in media or the mask off cracker to cracker communication around here anyway, maybe it's more of a lingering thing in the plains states.

yeah the euphemism treadmill is why i thought you wanted the other, rather on the nose, branch.

maybe you missed the I personally in there. I can't walk right, and i'm saying lame has never been directed at me or anyone else on that basis for decades outside of a bible verse.

the biden, the

i think you want the "how do i call someone stupid without being ableist" branch rather than this one. if it's about cripple i'm 99% sure the problem was that "a cripple" is dehumanizing and almost everyone who talked liked that is dead now, not that systems or machines being disabled or degraded in efficacy reinforces ableism somehow. If it's about lame, then I personally am infinitely more disrespected by etymology or church nerds than by the primary non-ableist usage. Nobody is getting called lame in their day to day on the basis of disability in contemporary american english, and the people or things getting called lame or lame-o are not being called that because their legs don't work.

I'll cede lame after we talk about "sucks" being misogynist and/or bottom-phobic.

because yes that is still used disparagingly.

where, by whom? zero points for fossils like "jesus healed the sick and mended the lame"

if we're recognizing that IQ is fake and "intelligence" is either also fake or so general as to be nearly meaningless as a one-dimensional measure, what are we even referring to if we're trying to be disparaging on that basis?

As a descriptor for "Other personality disorder" it was included in the DSM-III in 1980.[2]: 330 [a]. It was discussed in an appendix of the revised DSM-III-R in 1987,[1]: 371  but was never formally admitted into the manual. The distinction was not seen as clinically valuable because of its significant overlap with other personality disorders (borderline, avoidant and dependent).

doesn't sound very established, like it's associated enough with anything that could marginalize someone, or carries any social baggage.

I really think it's context specific. Calling someone a cripple? Unacceptable. Saying a supply chain has been crippled? Most likely would not offend someone who finds 'cripple' offensive.

yeah i brought this one (and lame) up in the other thread. I feel like we've already excised that usage from common speech, it's something 's dad might call someone I guess, but sanctions being crippling or whatever isn't disparaging or marginalizing anyone.

if people pay him to do a cameo and he does the cameo that sounds like the least scammy thing he's ever done for money.

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