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uuuuhhhh I really love T.M. Opera O and I play videogames n stuff

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@umatoreslop @umatorena07 I've asked my disabled friends about it before and they also don't care, so your experience seems pretty unique to me, but clearly nothing I say will change your mind so I'm just gonna stop arguing.

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@umatoreslop @umatorena07 They do in fact changeeaning when they are used in a different way by the majority of people who use it. Take goon for example, it used to mean a low ranking criminal, now it means to masturbate. The ones perpetuating the stereotype are the ones who refuse to see that it isn't-

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@umatoreslop @umatorena07 And I don't care about it's usage because I simply do not see it as a slur

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@umatoreslop @umatorena07 Considering I've never seen it be used and have anything to do with disabled people, yeah, most of the time it is not to make fun of disabled people. Like growing up I didn't know it had anything to do with disabled people because it was never used in a way that involved them.

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@umatoreslop @umatorena07 *change meaning

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@ethsta68105709 @umatorena07 the word hasn't changed meaning, it means stupid for being disabled, words dont change definition because you feel like it, dont explain what a slur means to the person impacted by said slur

you can just stay stupid, why do you want to say a slur so badly?

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@umatoreslop @umatorena07 Notice how I'm leaving disabled people out? That's because they are irrelevant in this context. Words change meaning and I find that in the modern usage of the word it means stupid, not stupid for being disabled.

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@umatoreslop @umatorena07 I don't use it personally, I just don't see the issue with using it in the context of mentally slow

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@umatoreslop @umatorena07 The term retardation means to slow down, mental retardation means to be mentally slow, AKA stupid. I don't think it's ableist when using it's literal meaning of mentally slow. It IS ableist to call someone a retard for being disabled, though I have yet to actually see that.

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@ILuvTachyon Remember you can always DM someone you trust if you have an opinion you want to speak about

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ITS OPETOBER!!!

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@fedlarpa @tachyonluvvvr Are you sure you aren't the same person from alternate realities?

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@ILuvTachyon She's just... So beautiful... Oh my dear Overlord...

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@ILuvTachyon Ope... 🤤

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@tachyonluvvvr I think the first one is referring to this

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@MatchaCinopyon My gloriously beautiful overlord T.M. Opera O please

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@umatorena07

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@ILuvTachyon Understandable

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@anikach7 Ope can't rape me because I'd never say no