[ SECRET POST #2419 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2419 ⌋

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Notes:

Way early because taking dog to the vet. :c

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"Spastic" is not derogatory in every part of the world. It's really not all that strange for someone to have never seen or heard it used as a slur.

[poisonenvy]

... Spastic is derogatory?

[(Anonymous)]

Case in point!

But yeah. In the UK it's used as a slur against people with disabilities that impact muscle control, such as cerebral palsy.

[poisonenvy]

I actually saw that in the thread below just after I made this comment.

Does that apply to the shortening of "spaz" as well? I'm planning on moving to England eventually, so I guess it's probably a good idea to know whether or not I'm going to offend people by calling myself a spaz. I've literally never heard it used for people with cerebral palsy before

[thene]

'Spaz' or 'spacker' are more common slur forms than 'spastic' from what I remember. I've heard it became a slur due to, back in like the 1980s, The Spastics Society (a charity) doing TV spots featuring disabled people that tweens found inadvertently amusing. :/

[(Anonymous)]

Very. On a scale of one to ten it is a nine point five. We're not talking about some lame word a retard or a derp might use here, this is serious offence way beyond any of those. The offence you got at the last sentence, beef it up by a factor of fifty and you are half way there to the level of offence the "S" word (and its colloquial abbreviation) have. Note how I don't mind throwing around lame, or derp, or retard, or even mong (although I did hesitate a bit over mong), but the "S" word is the "S" word. That is just how offensive it is.

[(Anonymous)]

You're still kind of an ass, though, if you know those words are seriously offensive to some people and choose use them like that to make a point.

[(Anonymous)]

You're also kind of an ass to assume that everyone, everywhere, must know and obey your social conventions, whether they know/care about them or not.