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Does anyone know of a #Swedish #dictionary that can help me find out if words are #slurs in Swedish? I'm quite proficient in Swedish, so it would be fine if they were monolingual.

Being autistic, I am challenged when it comes to communicating effectively with non-autistic people. (#DualEmpathyProblem) This gives me first-hand experience when it comes to the irony of a disability affecting the very means at my disposal to defend myself against bias, prejudice, and bigotry. I find it infuriating when people throw my disability under the bus, calling someone who is behaving like a jerk "autistic" as an insult.

Having said that, most of you are probably nodding your heads, autistic or not. So, I challenge you to consider what it's like for someone with an intellectual disability. What's the most commonly used type of insult for people behaving badly? It's not that they're autistic. It's that they're stupid, have a low IQ, are an idiot... You get the idea.

Intelligence (or lack thereof) does not define a person's worth or moral standing. In fact, it has *nothing* to do with it.

#Disability
#DisabilityRights
#Slurs

Apparently there is a slur against Allistic folks that some Autistic folks have started to use which originated on a popular Autism subreddit. I am not repeating it or mentioning the specific subreddit because I feel very strongly against that. Meme sums up my honest opinion. (No I am not Batman and will never be or want to be that level of authority.)

This is seriously inexcusable to me. I will not fight ableist society with this. We can do better. Not all Allistic folks are terrible to us. Nobody should be subject to hate speech.

If you come to me trying to justify this, expect a lengthy argument or a block.

#ActuallyAutistic #Slurs #HateSpeech #FightAbleism #FightNeurosupremacy

Batman snapping a rifle near the trigger with his bare hands. "SLUR" is sloppily placed on top. Batman is firmly and angrily saying "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."

No one acknowledged or cared that the man was being called the F-slur. No one could forgive him for the awful thing he’d done… and fair enough... but it was as if the slur was what he “deserved”.
https://buff.ly/11O8HTa

#LGBTQ #Assault #Slurs #Bigotry

"The term ["moron"] is attributed to psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard, who used it to describe “feeble-minded” individuals. It is closely tied to the United States’s involvement in eugenics [...]"

Yeah, I know many on here already avoid using ableist language like this, but definitely good to know the history of this particular term.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-sinister-history-of-the-word-moron-explained

via https://mas.to/@meganL/114108269406867377

#ableism #slurs #language #WordsMatter

PsyPost: Google searches for racial slurs are higher in areas where people are worried about disease. “A new study explores how pathogen stress—the prevalence of infectious diseases—may fuel racial bias in the United States, particularly anti-Black prejudice. By analyzing Google search data and measures of implicit and explicit bias, the researchers found that while pathogen stress […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/13/psypost-google-searches-for-racial-slurs-are-higher-in-areas-where-people-are-worried-about-disease/

For more on the r-word's fraught history and usage, see @IvaCheung's 2015 post for Strong Language:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/retarded-progress/

#insults #words #slurs #language #StrongLanguage #euphemisms

"The R-word has lately served as an anti-virtue-signal, affirmation that the speaker is not bound by the standards of 'wokeness'..." Miles Klee:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/r-word-elon-musk-maga-1235226732/

#slurs #language #words #insults #politics #PoliticsOfLanguage

✈️⚖️ Tell us what you think about: #UnitedAirlines settles #EEOC #lawsuit, paying $99,000 after an #AsianAmerican employee faced racial #slurs and physical #assault at its #Denver hub during the #pandemic.

The airline commits to policy changes promoting workplace safety and inclusivity.

#slurs

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