This post should be accepted with minimal controversy. Many lefty spaces on reddit that I was in first before I found CTH (Rip) already had rules in place to prevent ableist and other such insults - sure, it seemed a bit weird to me, accustomed to using them daily, but with little effort and some time I almost completely removed them from my vocabulary.

Strive to be better, friends, we're all in this together.

I'm really fucking bummed out by the response to this. It really fucking stings when nominally "woke" people who understand why calling things "gay" is bad, but when suddenly your ND ass is the one targeted by language you're expected to just put up with it. People keep saying "I know where you're coming from, but" and then just explain why they really, really don't.

I feel like it's worth noting that admitting you're wrong or using ableist language is HARD, but it's part of the growing process. the fact is, at some point in time, I'd be willing to bet that all of us have used ableist language at some point and then learned why it's harmful. I'm thinking in particular about words that were "cool" to use in like, middle school or high school. or, language I used two weeks ago that I didn't know was ableist, and now I do.

There's nothing wrong with making a mistake, especially if you didn't think of it as harmful. Most people don't call someone stupid and think of it as making fun of a disability. They say it to make a point. But I'd suggest everyone reading consider this – we don't know each other in real life. You don't know if someone is struggling with something, and for all you know, whatever word you're using is the same word kids used to make fun of a comrade when they were younger, or even as an adult. Just be mindful and think about the impact your words could have on ANYONE reading your posts/comments. Think of all the slurs you wouldn't dare use and the reason you don't use them. Then think about other words that could have the same effect, but just aren't as accepted necessarily as "slurs" in general society.

Side note, making fun of someone's intelligence also suggests that someone who may have an intellectual disability or even just be neurodivergent and not think the same way you do has opinions of lesser value. While yes, you probably don't mean that with your words, it contributes to a stigma that benefits no one.

TL;DR: think about the person on the receiving end and write what you actually mean to tell them, not the insult you shout when you're mad/frustrated

Shut up, nerd. How's that for an intellgence based insult, four eyes.

Call them revisionists and liberals and reactionaries and fascists and racists and sexists and ableist, use the fucking language socialism already gave you

You’re not a “radical Communist” when you hurt marginalized comrades, you’re a fashy asshole

guess what? slurs aren’t a hill you have to fucking die on for Communism to be successful, we’ll simply forgive you assholes when you stop using them like everyone else is asking you to

Stop making fun of people who don't have chins, too. Being weird looking doesn't make you a Nazi and if you're going to mock them mock them for being a Nazi.

Like, people are making fun of fat nazis in body armor and shit because... they don't look like the fake media image of hard core ripped Nazi skinheads that the media uses to make being a skinhead seem like a cool bad boy thing.

Of course they don't look like that. They're just Americans, and Americans are fat because we have too much sugar in everything we consume. Being a Nazi doesn't make someone fat and being fat doesn't make someone a Nazi, and mocking them for being fat is just shitty.

Chapo last week: haha r slash animemes is getting upset about not being allowed to say tr*p

Chapo this week: what do you mean my words hurt people?

This is correct and good.

I recognized this a while back and since then I've actively removed those terms from my everyday vocabulary. Even if it seems like a very low-priority issue to some, I recognize that it's considered ableist by marginalized groups, so I want to do better. I don't see why this can't be everyone's response, it's not that hard to use different (and more precise) words.