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23rd May 2023

Post reblogged from Kāmkwid Ŋrāɢweg with 63 notes

fruityyamenrunner:

kontextmaschine:

fruityyamenrunner:

memecucker:

memecucker:

Just learned there was year old discourse about if “spaz” is a slur bc Lizzo said it

Let’s propose a trade. Maybe the UK is willing to allow Americans to say “spaz” but in exchange Americans must allow Brits to casually say either “cunt” or “faggot” (only have to choose one)?

i will let you say not only ‘spaz’ but the whole range of spasticity based slurs, but you must permit 'retarded’.

Is spasticity like, significant to the British, like an occupational hazard of some big local industry or an effect of exposure to dark satanic mill residue or WWI poison gas or something? I can’t remember the last time it even came up over here.

do not research Joey Deacon

Institutionalized with cerebral palsy, was assumed to be mentally “subnormal” but through much effort with other institutional patients wrote and published a pamphlet-length book which funded their independent lives, appeared on a prominent children’s show as an inspirational story but became an object of nationwide schoolboy mockery, with “spaz” taking on much the role “retard” did in American youth culture.

Okay, I guess that works. One thing I will say is the Covid-brain experience made me realize how much of the stereotype of the rural moron, loping along with hips and belly forward, shoulders back, and arms hanging down and swinging freely with the wrists loose is really a stereotype of someone with significant nerve or brain issues.

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    And Scope, of all people, should probably have seen that coming....Per Doug Stanhope:...
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    To add to the last addition here, I work with kids with and without disabilities and calling others a 'scope' has...
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    A distinction though is with American schoolboy "retard" – like, there were kids with Down Syndrome around that the term...
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  7. fruityyamenrunner reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    do not research Joey Deacon
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    People have been saying "spazz" here for my entire life. You can't set terms for that. I would like, however, to...
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  12. jellypumpkin said: @pancakeke yeah I know.
  13. pancakeke said: @jellypumpkin one comes from the other lol
  14. memecucker posted this
    Just learned there was year old discourse about if “spaz” is a slur bc Lizzo said it