There’s a clear campaign against the mentally ill with the global rise of fascism. Lots of it shows up in anti homeless rhetoric, but you can see it in the MAHA and anti vaccination movements.

There’s no reason to use the word “r-tarded” to describe someone. As someone who’s worked with the intellectually challenged, it’s an insult to them to compare them with people who are willfully ignorant.

  • PiraHxCx@lemmy.mlEnglish
    192·
    13 days ago

    In my language removed is used in several contexts and it means delayed - and although a non-native speaker, I thought the same rule would apply to English.

    • blitzen@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      13 days ago

      I certainly support not using it as describing a person as “delayed,” but there are non-offensive uses such as vehicle ignition timing can be advanced or rétarded. (Accent used here only to bypass the filter)

    • LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      13 days ago

      Alright I’ll finally ask: In my Lemmy app (“Boost for Lemmy” on Android) your post’s first sentence shows “In my language removed is used”. I’m assuming the word you originally typed has been censored, but I’m not sure if this is a Lemmy thing, a lemmy.ml thing, or some app setting I missed.

      Can others view the uncensored version of your post? Because then it’s probably something to do with the app I’m using.
      Been bugging me for months.

      • PiraHxCx@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        It’s probably a lemmy.world censorship - I’m also from .ml but I don’t think it can control what we can read on other instances, and this post is on .world.

        • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.socialEnglish
          5·
          13 days ago

          It isn’t .world. I’m on piefed.social I show your first message with removed and a couple comments down I see the actual word, so it’s something on .ml

          • PiraHxCx@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            13 days ago

            Well, if it’s .ml and not .world, it’s easy to test as you are from neither. Type the real word r*tarded and you should be able to read it - if it’s .ml, perhaps I won’t be able to read it. Above a guy from .ca posted a wikipedia link containing the word and it’s censored for me.

          • LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            13 days ago

            Here goes nothing…
            removed
            Edit: Well I’m certainly not able to post the word, but I’m still unsure if this is a Boost, .ml, or thread instance thing.