Leftie, anti-Rowlingist, pro-memer, trans woman. She/Her. Name: Alice, after the best grandma in the world. Defending black Annabeth until my dying days.
@Ricdorellana @ppPepoComfy If she didn't want people to call her stupid or say she's a bitch, then the easy thing to do is just recognize she was wrong and apologize for it, and she not only failed to do this, but instead doubled and tripled down on it. I have zero empathy for her whatsoever.
@Ricdorellana @ppPepoComfy She doesn't really have the right to get offended by trans people and their allies being mean to her because she lied repeatedly about us and spread far right talking points. She brought it all on herself.
@Rohan65336929 @ppPepoComfy no, my argument is "Vaush did not use the meaning of the term that's not simply an insult about people being disabled, is a disabled person himself, AND she is not disabled." Amazing you have to ignore my full argument.
@Rohan65336929 @ppPepoComfy The insult that he meant with it is just "you're dumb," not "you're mentally disabled." Jesus Christ. If Ana was a disabled person and he used it on her, that'd be one thing, but she's not so chill out dude.
@Rohan65336929 @ppPepoComfy Look, if you're going to just refuse to actually engage with the points I bring up, can you just leave? It's clear neither of us is convincing the other regardless.
@Rohan65336929 @ppPepoComfy You're also still ignoring my point that there's two different meanings and the meaning Vaush (again, an autistic person) used is equivalent to a black person calling white people the soft-r version
@Rohan65336929 @ppPepoComfy And retard in this context basically just means "dumb," not "mentally disabled." It's weird for a non-disabled person to say given the history of it being used against disabled people, but fine for disabled people to say to non-disabled people. Jesus Christ man.
@Rohan65336929 @ppPepoComfy And again, this is like if a white guy got offended about being called the soft-r n-word by a black dude and acted as though it was being used in the hard-r sense. There's two different meanings of the term retard, and one of them isn't okay for anyone to say, but
@Rohan65336929 @ppPepoComfy Calling a non-black person the soft-r n-word as a black person is perfectly okay though, and a gay person making fun of straight people by calling them gay is also okay though, and an autist calling someone a retard to call them stupid is also okay. This is just tone policing.
@Rohan65336929 @ppPepoComfy LOL as a bisexual person myself I also make fun of straight people by calling them gay, it's a power I get to enjoy as a bisexual person.
You really just like tone policing huh
@Rohan65336929 @ppPepoComfy From an autistic person's perspective: This is kind of like if a white guy got upset about being called the soft-r version by a black dude.
@Rohan65336929 @ppPepoComfy Wait, you realize that's basically the same thing as what's happening here? You realize there's nuance between the hard r and soft r but don't realize there's nuance between using it to degrade someone for being mentally ill and using it to call someone stupid?
@Rohan65336929 @ppPepoComfy to use it to just call someone stupid, yeah. I'd totally understand why some people (particularly autists) don't want to be called it, and I think it's fine to criticize Vaush for saying it, but I also think it's completely overreacting to paint Vaush as "trash" and "garbage."