What alternative word would you use in this case, as a pejorative insult to someone’s intelligence?
Looking at the list you’ve provided, they’re all generic insults not specifically aimed at someone for doing something dumb. If the problem is that the pejorative is aimed at intelligence…ableism will never go away. People will always insult the intelligence of others when they do something dumb.
Then ableism will never die. What you are requesting be done is absurd. People say things they do themself are stupid, “I just touched a hot stove without thinking, how stupid of me”, they of course would do the same to others. If that’s the correction you want, you’re going to be in the vast minority and will be fighting a losing war against core fundamentals of human behavior.
Edit to be clear: and not because it’s a lot of information, but because bigots are so rarely willing to challenge their bias and risk being better, I wasn’t really expecting you to (but that doesn’t mean you’re wrong or that others shouldn’t know why)… 🙄
I really wish the ableist community names thing would stop…
Many lists of alternatives exist online, here’s one, and another, finding another word shouldn’t be hard.
(Oh, and edit to add: it isn’t about offense )
That’s idiotic
What alternative word would you use in this case, as a pejorative insult to someone’s intelligence?
Looking at the list you’ve provided, they’re all generic insults not specifically aimed at someone for doing something dumb. If the problem is that the pejorative is aimed at intelligence…ableism will never go away. People will always insult the intelligence of others when they do something dumb.
The point is literally to not, because doing so is ableist.
Then ableism will never die. What you are requesting be done is absurd. People say things they do themself are stupid, “I just touched a hot stove without thinking, how stupid of me”, they of course would do the same to others. If that’s the correction you want, you’re going to be in the vast minority and will be fighting a losing war against core fundamentals of human behavior.
I’m not reading that
Shocker…
Edit to be clear: and not because it’s a lot of information, but because bigots are so rarely willing to challenge their bias and risk being better, I wasn’t really expecting you to (but that doesn’t mean you’re wrong or that others shouldn’t know why)… 🙄