[ SECRET POST #4267 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4267 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I would argue that it's possible for a word to be

1) strongly dispreferred by the community
2) something the medical system should move away from
3) still not hate speech

all at the same time. Things, including words, can be bad without being the worst thing. And words can have very different impacts in different regions and populations. It's counterproductive to insist that every variant of "retardation" is always hate speech when some of the people using it are demonstrably trying to provide support and services to the community effected concurrent with their use of the word.

(And yes, doctors can also be hella ableist sometimes, but not all [x]ism is hate speech either. I think hate speech really communicates a level of malice that's higher than garden variety systemic blind spots.)