This is huge
The right-wing candidate who said "stop the war on cars" was defeated.
The leftist who said "My goal is to make sure Grégoire loses" was defeated
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I would have upvoted you til you used an ableist slur. You could have made your argument perfectly well - in fact, even stronger - if you chose a specific word that more closely matches the problem. It isn't that they're intellectually disabled, it's because they are too blinded by ideology to take a pragmatic approach. I'd just say "...the others aren't pragmatic enough to put aside their differences" or something.
No. This has nothing to do with pragmatism. This is the fucking ruling class shitting their pants because they fear the loss of their privileges. The PS is nothing more than cockroaches trying everything to keep the little bit of power they have.
Do you imagine if you had to find a proper job after being an elected PS official for years? What would you out in your CV? Traitor (Faure)? CIA asset (Glucksman)? "I successfully lead a party to its ruin (Holland, Valls)?
Right, okay, that's fine -- my point is that the problem isn't intellectual disability, and even if it was, you shouldn't use the r-slur. I am disabled and I have had that word weaponized against me my entire life, and seeing it used brings back memories of all of the times I was bullied and harassed for being different.
Sorry that happened to you buddy ♥️
I can understand this. If it clears things up in my world retarded! = disabled.
In my head, retarded is someone who's purposefully going out if his way to be as stupid as possible. Just like dude or bro is genderless. Idk if this makes sense for you, tho.
I'm sorry if you felt attacked. This was not the goal.
I get what you're saying, but unfortunately we don't live in your world, we live in the real world, where the term "mental retardation" was historically used to refer to intellectual disability, and has since been weaponized against disabled people and is used as a negative slur all the time.
I understand that you used it without harmful intent, but what I am trying to express to you is that it doesn't matter what your intent was, much like the n-word, the word has baggage and causes real world harm, and further marginalizes some of the most marginalized people in society.
Please, have some compassion, just choose to use some other word or turn of phrase instead, is it really that hard?